Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being malleable; capability of being shaped or permanently extended by pressure, as by hammering or rolling, without losing coherence or continuity; the property of being susceptible of extension by beating or rolling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to
friability andbrittleness .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
malleable . - noun 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.
- noun cryptography a property of a
cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter aciphertext such that itdecrypts to a relatedplaintext
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking
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Examples
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Today, I would like to tackle this good question, and the issue of title malleability in general, at my characteristic great length.
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Today, I would like to tackle this good question, and the issue of title malleability in general, at my characteristic great length.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Titles that are, um, catchy 2006
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Ideas when hammered gain malleability, acquire resilience and cease to be some kind of exotic rigid doctrine.
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Indeed, some who say that his malleability will be his demise may be right.
Positional Vertigo 2008
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Rather than drawing brittle lines of demarcation between organized men and other competitive labor sources, they attempted to distance themselves from potential challenges with a certain malleability.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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[2] Palladium's strength and hardness come from its low temperature malleability or in other words its able to be worked cold, thus increasing it's strength.
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Palladium's strength and hardness come from it low temperature malleability or in other words its able to be worked cold, thus increasing it's strength.
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Palladium's strength and hardness come from it low temperature malleability or in other words its able to be worked cold, thus increasing it's strength.
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Palladium's strength and hardness come from it low temperature malleability or in other words its able to be worked cold, thus increasing it's strength.
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These images suggest that it is devoid of any characteristics in its own right (except those formal characteristics necessary to its role, such as malleability).
Plato's Timaeus Zeyl, Donald 2009
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