Meaning | The property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking / breaking. |
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Synonym | malleability |
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Narrower | ductility, ductileness | The malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets |
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flexibility, flexibleness | The property of being flexible |
Broader | physical property | Any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions |
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Opposite | unmalleability | A lack of malleability |
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Spanish | maleabilidad, plasticidad |
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Catalan | maleabilitat, mal·leabilitat, plasticitat |
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Adjectives | plastic | capable of being molded / molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) |
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