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The property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped under pressure without breaking
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malleability
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Word definitions for malleability in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malleability \Mal"le*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [CF. F. mall['e]abilit['e].] The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness . --Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from malleable + -ity .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or state of being malleable. 2 The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking. 3 (context ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Malleability is a property of some cryptographic algorithms . An encryption algorithm is malleable if it is possible for an adversary to transform a ciphertext into another ciphertext which decrypts to a related plaintext . That is, given an encryption ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped under pressure without breaking [syn: plasticity ] [ant: unmalleability ]
Usage examples of malleability.
I have worked on the most unpromising material, persuading the dumb to speak and trying, from that, to arrive at general principles about the malleability of the infant mind.
The bottles held the nutrients to supplement the bath in its sustaining of the patient while cells gained a pseudoembryonic malleability, tissues and organs reshaped, and the body restructured itself to obey new blueprints.
Such malleability suggests a simple original form -- and that suggests binary fission.