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The malleability of something that can be drawing into wires or hammered into thin sheets
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ductility
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Wikipedia
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In materials science , ductility is a solid material's ability to deform under tensile stress; this is often characterized by the material's ability to be stretched into a wire. Malleability , a similar property, is a material's ability to deform under ...
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n. (context physics English) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.
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n. the malleability of something that can be drawing into wires or hammered into thin sheets
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ductility \Duc*til"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. ductilit['e].] The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments. Tractableness; pliableness. --South.
Usage examples of ductility.
Glastic: an ultrahigh molecular weight, thermosetting polymer of boron oxide that has the colloidal properties of glass with the ductility of plastic.
If there were real artefacts, physicists and chemists would be fighting for the privilege of discovering that there are aliens among us who use, say, unknown alloys, or materials of extraordinary tensile strength or ductility or conductivity.