The property of being flexible

Usage examples of flexibility.

The system permits great flexibility: no longer did all messages have to be enciphered with one of a relatively few standard sequences of alphabets, but different ambassadors could be given individual keys, and, if it were feared that a key had been stolen or solved, a new one could be substituted with the greatest of ease.

It loses flexibility if it dries out, but you can cut it in winter and store logs in a pool or bog for a year, even two.

It was probably not danced for the sake of dancing, but was something more in the nature of eurhythmics, in which the dancers strove to show their perfection, the beauty of the lines and the flexibility of their bodies.

On this view, the capacity of enduring the most different climates by man himself and by his domestic animals, and such facts as that former species of the elephant and rhinoceros were capable of enduring a glacial climate, whereas the living species are now all tropical or sub-tropical in their habits, ought not to be looked at as anomalies, but merely as examples of a very common flexibility of constitution, brought, under peculiar circumstances, into play.

One was to take passage on a landship, a great-wheeled wind-driven vessel built with enough flexibility to withstand minor anomalies and capable of steering clear of major ones.

Relative autonomy simply refers to a certain flexibility in the face of changing environmental conditions.

I was taking full swings, moving the club on a straight line back from the ball to as far as I could take it, given my flexibility.

We may even infer as probable that the less or greater destruction during a frost of the leaves on a plant which does not sleep, may often depend on the greater or less degree of flexibility of their petioles and of the branches which bear them.

He liked the flexibility of being able to spend the afternoon in the pub. He is sorry that he never discovered the voluntary sector earlier.

I do not know whether I am praising or excusing myself, but of all those qualities I possessed but one--namely, flexibility.

The chief cause of this flexibility lay in the anagramming process—the one that finally produced the Latin plaintext.

These attractors maintain the system in a condition far from thermo-dynamic equilibrium, with more effective use of information, greater efficiency in the use of free energies, greater flexibility [relative autonomy], as well as greater structural complexity on a higher level of organization.

Flexibility of mind, a disposition easily biassed by others, is an attribute which you know I am not very desirous of obtaining.

Those were rarer than one might have thought, and from his own experience, Simpson recognized the mental flexibility involved in acknowledging that someone else had actually made one of your own brainchildren better.

Both had sailed to the rendezvous, High King Brian aboard a speedy little lugger but recently arrived from Liverpool to join the fleet of the Duke of Norfolk as a dispatch vessel—the sometime Papal lugger repaired and now fitted out with a dozen swivel guns and three of the smaller rifled breechloading tubes of Sir Peter Fairley's manufacture, two of them at stern and one at the bow on a pedestal mount which allowed for extreme flexibility of use.