What does malleable mean?
Definitions for malleable
ˈmæl i ə bəlmal·leable
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Princeton's WordNet
ductile, malleableadjective
easily influenced
ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractileadjective
capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
"ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
GCIDE
Malleableadjective
Capable of being influenced to behave as desired; tractable; -- used mostly of children.
Wiktionary
malleableadjective
Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
malleableadjective
(metaphorical) Flexible, liable to change.
My opinion on the subject is malleable.
malleableadjective
in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
Etymology: From malliable, borrowed from malleabilis, derived from malleare, from malleus, from mal-ni-, an extended variant of melH₂-.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Malleableadjective
Capable of being spread by beating: this is a quality possessed in the most eminent degree by gold, it being more ductile than any other metal; and is opposite to friability or brittleness. John Quincy
Etymology: malleable, French; from malleus, Latin, a hammer.
Make it more strong for falls, though it come not to the degree to be malleable. Francis Bacon.
The beaten soldier proves most manful,
That like his sword endures the anvil;
And justly ’s held more formidable,
The more his valour’s malleable. Hudibras, p. ii.If the body is compact, and bends or yields inward to pression without any sliding of its parts, it is hard and elastick, returning to its figure with a force rising from the mutual attraction of its parts: if the parts slide upon one another, the body is malleable or soft. Isaac Newton, Opticks.
Wikipedia
malleable
Ductility is a mechanical property commonly described as a material's amenability to drawing (e.g. into wire). In materials science, ductility is defined by the degree to which a material can sustain plastic deformation under tensile stress before failure. Ductility is an important consideration in engineering and manufacturing. It defines a material's suitability for certain manufacturing operations (such as cold working) and its capacity to absorb mechanical overload. Some metals that are generally described as ductile include gold and copper, while platinum is the most ductile of all metals in pure form. However, not all metals experience ductile failure as some can be characterized with brittle failure like cast iron. Polymers generally can be viewed as ductile materials as they typically allow for plastic deformation.Malleability, a similar mechanical property, is characterized by a material's ability to deform plastically without failure under compressive stress. Historically, materials were considered malleable if they were amenable to forming by hammering or rolling. Lead is an example of a material which is relatively malleable but not ductile.
ChatGPT
malleable
Malleable refers to the physical property of a substance, usually metal, that allows it to be shaped, molded or deformed without breaking or cracking. It can also refer to being easily influenced, adaptable or capable of adjusting to varying situations or conditions.
Webster Dictionary
Malleableadjective
capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals
Etymology: [F. mallable, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See Malleate.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of malleable in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of malleable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of malleable in a Sentence
The vitrimers can have both of the two worlds, but they are fundamentally different, they combine this permanent network, resistance, dimensional stability with the possibility of being malleable, (and) completely recyclable.
It's abstract, the concept of nations has always been malleable.
The horse may have been a little bit out of the barn here in terms of what they’re looking at, girls tend to mature earlier . . . the girls were even more fixed in their position in the skeletal world by the time they started, whereas the boys were perhaps a little more malleable.
Proving sex abuse and rape cases from decades ago is generally an extraordinarily difficult task, proof in cases where children are involved are even more difficult. Memories of children are often unreliable and malleable.
When you’re a child your brain is very malleable, you don’t have all of these models for your whole life yet, you’re more able to continuously update your beliefs. at some point those models harden, and they become more difficult to shape. Under psychedelics we open up a new window to do that.
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- kujnýCzech
- hämmerbar, schmiedbar, dehnbar, verformbar, plastisch, formbarGerman
- ŝanĝeblaEsperanto
- maleableSpanish
- انعطاف پذیر, چکش خور, قابل انعطافPersian
- mukautuvainen, taottavaFinnish
- malléableFrench
- so-chummeydagh, so-lhoobaghManx
- malleabileItalian
- ניתן לניפוחHebrew
- 온순한Korean
- kneedbaar, smeedbaar, hamerbaarDutch
- fleksibel, bøyelig, smidigNorwegian
- kujny, podatny, kowalnyPolish
- maleabilRomanian
- пластичный, податливый, ковкий, восприимчивыйRussian
- kujnýSlovak
- smidbarSwedish
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