English words for 'Relating to the elastic properties of very small objects'
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noun
- the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity
- the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events
- the inanimate property of something that has died
- A lack of animation in a person.
- (philosophy) The state of not being alive; lifelessness.
- A lack of elasticity.
- A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink.
noun
- The quality of being elastic.
- (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
- Adaptability.
- (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
noun
- the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
- (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
- (literal or figurative) The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
- (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium after a crisis, failure or any kind of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
noun
verb
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- convey or reveal information
- give or convey physically
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- dedicate
- bring about
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- be the cause or source of
- accord by verdict
- allow to have or take
- emit or utter
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- proffer (a body part)
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- execute and deliver
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- inflict as a punishment
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- bestow
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- endure the loss of
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- propose
- give (as medicine)
- place into the hands or custody of
- leave with; give temporarily
- organize or be responsible for
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- give or supply
- occur
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To propose someone for a toast, used in standard formulations for toasts.
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- To provide or administer (a medication)
- (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To pledge.
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
- To make a present or gift of.
- To present someone to an audience.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.)
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
noun
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
verb
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- To grow, to sprout.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
adj
- Made of elastic.
- Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.
- Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
- (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.
- springy; bouncy; vivacious
- Of clothing, elasticated.
- Pervasive, all-encompassing.
- capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
noun
adj
- Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)
- (psychology, neuroscience) Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.
- (materials science) Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.
- Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions. (of systems, organisms or people)
- elastic; rebounds readily
- recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
adj
- (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- (Greek mythology) Of or relating to the ancient Olympian Greek God Apollo.
- Of or relating to the Ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga.
- Alternative form of apollonian.
- Pertaining to Apollonia.
noun
noun
- (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body
- (if the stress and deformation are along an axis) Young's modulus
- (physics) A quantity that measures an object or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e. non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it, defined as the ratio of stress to strain.
noun
- (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
- (physics, engineering) The state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
- the physical condition of being stretched or strained
- the action of stretching something tight
- feelings of hostility that are not manifest
- A psychological state of being tense.
- (physics, engineering) Voltage.
- (physics, engineering) A force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
- The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
- A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
verb
prefix
noun
- (physics) The emissivity of a material.
- (physics) The ratio of the RMS value to the absolute mean of a sinusoidal wave (especially to that of an alternating current).
- (crystallography) A function that describes the scattering power of an atom as function of the scattering angle.
- (physics) Any of several functions that describe the unknown internal state of a particle.
- (engineering, design, commerce) The geometry of an object, especially in engineering design; configuration.
- (mechanics) A factor describing the stress distribution of a body.
noun
name
noun
- the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something
- the science of matter and energy and their interactions
- The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
- plural of physic
- The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those examined or studied scientifically.
verb
noun
- (physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
- (mathematics) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
- The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
- (law) The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
- (computing, uncountable) Ellipsis of quantum computing.
- (now chiefly South Asia or law) The total amount of something; quantity.
- (law) The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
- (computing) The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
- (medicine) The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
- a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory
- (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)
adj
noun
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- excessive sternness
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
noun
- a small mass of soft material
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (slang) A sandwich.
- (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
- (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
- (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
verb
noun
- the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity
- the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events
- the inanimate property of something that has died
- A lack of animation in a person.
- (philosophy) The state of not being alive; lifelessness.
- A lack of elasticity.
- A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink.
noun
- The quality of being elastic.
- (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
- Adaptability.
- (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
noun
- the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
- (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
- (literal or figurative) The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
- (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium after a crisis, failure or any kind of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
noun
verb
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- convey or reveal information
- give or convey physically
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- dedicate
- bring about
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- be the cause or source of
- accord by verdict
- allow to have or take
- emit or utter
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- proffer (a body part)
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- execute and deliver
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- inflict as a punishment
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- bestow
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- endure the loss of
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- propose
- give (as medicine)
- place into the hands or custody of
- leave with; give temporarily
- organize or be responsible for
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- give or supply
- occur
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To propose someone for a toast, used in standard formulations for toasts.
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- To provide or administer (a medication)
- (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To pledge.
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
- To make a present or gift of.
- To present someone to an audience.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.)
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
noun
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
verb
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- To grow, to sprout.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
noun
- (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body
- (if the stress and deformation are along an axis) Young's modulus
- (physics) A quantity that measures an object or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e. non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it, defined as the ratio of stress to strain.
noun
- (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
- (physics, engineering) The state of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
- the physical condition of being stretched or strained
- the action of stretching something tight
- feelings of hostility that are not manifest
- A psychological state of being tense.
- (physics, engineering) Voltage.
- (physics, engineering) A force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
- The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
- A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
verb
noun
- (physics) The emissivity of a material.
- (physics) The ratio of the RMS value to the absolute mean of a sinusoidal wave (especially to that of an alternating current).
- (crystallography) A function that describes the scattering power of an atom as function of the scattering angle.
- (physics) Any of several functions that describe the unknown internal state of a particle.
- (engineering, design, commerce) The geometry of an object, especially in engineering design; configuration.
- (mechanics) A factor describing the stress distribution of a body.
noun
name
noun
- the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something
- the science of matter and energy and their interactions
- The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.
- plural of physic
- The physical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those examined or studied scientifically.
verb
noun
- (physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon.
- (mathematics) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary.
- The amount or quantity observably present, or available.
- (law) The length or magnitude of the sentence handed down to someone who has been found guilty of a crime.
- (computing, uncountable) Ellipsis of quantum computing.
- (now chiefly South Asia or law) The total amount of something; quantity.
- (law) The amount of compensation awarded to a successful party in a lawsuit.
- (computing) The amount of time allocated for a thread to perform its work in a multithreaded environment.
- (medicine) The minimum dose of a pathogen required to cause an infection.
- a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory
- (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)
adj
noun
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- excessive sternness
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
noun
- a small mass of soft material
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (slang) A sandwich.
- (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
- (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
- (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
verb
adj
- Made of elastic.
- Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.
- Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
- (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.
- springy; bouncy; vivacious
- Of clothing, elasticated.
- Pervasive, all-encompassing.
- capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
noun
adj
- Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic. (of objects or substances)
- (psychology, neuroscience) Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.
- (materials science) Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.
- Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions. (of systems, organisms or people)
- elastic; rebounds readily
- recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
adj
- (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- (Greek mythology) Of or relating to the ancient Olympian Greek God Apollo.
- Of or relating to the Ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga.
- Alternative form of apollonian.
- Pertaining to Apollonia.