stickiness

stickiness
sticky stick‧y [ˈstɪki] adjective
1. sticky prices do not change very much and are slow to react to changing market conditions:

• In this situation, prices and wages tend to be sticky and are unresponsive to shifts in the market.

2. COMPUTING used to describe a website that attracts people to visit it and to spend a long time on it:

• You need to build a sticky site that entertains people.

3. have sticky fingers informal to be likely to steal something
— stickiness noun [uncountable] :

• There are various ways that you can give your website stickiness.

* * *

stickiness UK US /ˈstɪkɪnəs/ noun [U]
► COMMERCE, E-COMMERCE qualities that encourage visitors to spend a long time in a store, on a website, etc.: »

The company is using multimedia to increase the stickiness of visits to its Oxford Street Store.

► the slow speed with which a particular cause can have a particular effect: »

These sociologists emphasize the stickiness of organizational change.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?
Synonyms:
, , , ,


Look at other dictionaries:

  • Stickiness — Stick i*ness, n. The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • stickiness — stickiness. См. слипание [хромосом]. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • stickiness — [stik′ē nis] n. a sticky quality or condition * * * See stickily. * * * …   Universalium

  • stickiness — index adhesion (affixing) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • stickiness — [stik′ē nis] n. a sticky quality or condition …   English World dictionary

  • stickiness — noun a) the property of sticking or adhering; adhesion The low stickiness rating helped explain why our ad’s brand linkage rating was so low: people were turned off by the blurriness of the main photo. b) warmth and humidity, as on a muggy day …   Wiktionary

  • Stickiness — Klebrigkeit , Begriff für die Nutzungsdauer und Wiederbesuchshäufigkeit eines Webauftritts seitens der Besucher. Ziel ist, eine möglichst hohe Stickiness zu erreichen …   Online-Wörterbuch Deutsch-Lexikon

  • stickiness — lipnumas statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Medžiagos savybė prilipti prie kito paviršiaus. atitikmenys: angl. adhesivity; stickiness; tackiness vok. Haftfähigkeit, f; Klebrigkeit, f rus. липкость, f pranc. adhésivité, f …   Penkiakalbis aiškinamasis metrologijos terminų žodynas

  • stickiness — klijingumas statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Medžiagų gebėjimas priekibos jėgomis sujungti kūnų paviršius. atitikmenys: angl. adhesiveness; stickiness; tackiness vok. Klebrigkeit, f; Leimigkeit, f rus. клейкость, f… …   Penkiakalbis aiškinamasis metrologijos terminų žodynas

  • stickiness — klijingumas statusas T sritis chemija apibrėžtis Medžiagų gebėjimas adhezinėmis jėgomis sujungti kūnų paviršius. atitikmenys: angl. adhesiveness; stickiness; tackiness rus. клейкость …   Chemijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”