malleability

mal·le·a·ble  (ml--bl)

adj.

1. Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure: a malleable metal.

2. Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.

3. Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable: the malleable mind of the pragmatist.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mallebilis, from mallere, to hammer, from Latin malleus, hammer; see mel- in Indo-European roots.]

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malle·a·bili·ty, malle·a·ble·ness n.

malle·a·bly adv.

Synonyms: malleable, ductile, plastic, pliable, pliant
These adjectives mean capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out: malleable metals such as gold and silver; ductile copper; a plastic substance such as wax; soaked the leather to make it pliable; pliant molten glass.

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malleability

the property of a substance that makes it capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers. — malleable, adj.

See also: Materials, Properties of

Thesaurus

Noun

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malleability - the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking plasticity physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions ductileness, ductility - the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets flexibility, flexibleness - the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped unmalleability - a lack of malleability