ductility, ductileness
(noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ductility (countable and uncountable, plural ductilities)
(physics) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.
Source: Wiktionary
Duc*til"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. ductilité.]
1. The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.
2. Tractableness; pliableness. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
