NOUN | attribute | plasticity, malleability | the property of being physically malleable |
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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 | |
Narrower | ductility, ductileness | The malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets |
flexibility, flexibleness | The property of being flexible | |
Broader | physical property | Any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions |
Opposite | unmalleability | A lack of malleability |
Spanish | maleabilidad, plasticidad | |
Catalan | maleabilitat, mal·leabilitat, plasticitat | |
Adjectives | plastic | capable of being molded / molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) |
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