Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not ductile; not capable of being drawn into threads, as a metal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal; inelastic; tough.

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  • adjective Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ ductile

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Examples

  • The Matter must be of later origin than the forming-power, and therefore must be at its disposition throughout, ready to become anything, ready therefore to any bulk; besides, if it possessed magnitude, it would necessarily possess shape also: it would be doubly inductile.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Each touch you give will give shape and form and make a lasting impression, and your hands labour at no hard and inductile mass.

    Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879

  • After all, he is no inductile material in some hands.”

    Villette 2003

  • After all, he is no inductile material in some hands. "

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

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