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plas·tic  (plstk)

adj.

1. Capable of being shaped or formed: plastic material such as clay. See Synonyms at malleable.

2. Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling: the plastic art of sculpture.

3. Having the qualities of sculpture; well-formed: "the astonishing plastic beauty of the chorus girls" (Frank Harris).

4. Giving form or shape to a substance: the plastic forces that create and wear down a mountain range.

5. Easily influenced; impressionable.

6. Made of a plastic or plastics: a plastic garden hose.

7. Physics Capable of undergoing continuous deformation without rupture or relaxation.

8. Biology Capable of building tissue; formative.

9. Marked by artificiality or superficiality; synthetic: a plastic world of fad, hype, and sensation.

10. Informal Of or obtained by means of credit cards: plastic money.

n.

1. Any of various organic compounds produced by polymerization, capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments used as textile fibers.

2. Objects made of plastic.

3. Informal A credit card or credit cards: would accept cash or plastic in payment.

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[Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, from plastos, molded, from plassein, to mold; see pel-² in Indo-European roots.]

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plasti·cal·ly adv.

plas·tici·ty (pls-ts-t) n.

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plasticity [plæˈstɪsɪtɪ]

n

1. the quality of being plastic or able to be moulded

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) (in pictorial art) the quality of depicting space and form so that they appear three-dimensional

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plasticity

the property of a substance that makes it capable of being molded, given shape, or being made to assume a desired form. — plastic, adj.

See also: Materials, Properties of

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

plasticity - the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking malleability 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

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plasticity

noun pliability, flexibility, suppleness, malleability, pliableness The new insulating compound demonstrated remarkable plasticity.

Translations

plasticity [plæsˈtɪsɪtɪ] N → plasticidad f

plasticity

n → Formbarkeit f, → Modellierbarkeit f

plasticity [plæsˈtɪsɪtɪ] n → plasticità