MALLEABILITY

malleability, plasticity

(noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

malleability (countable and uncountable, plural malleabilities)

The quality or state of being malleable.

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.

(cryptography) a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Antonyms

• brittleness

• friability

Source: Wiktionary


Mal"le*a*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [CF. F. malléabilité.]

Definition: The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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