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ductile
adj. malleable, flexible, pliant


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Ductility
Ductility is the mechanical property of being capable of sustaining large plastic deformations due to tensile stress without fracture (in metals, such as being drawn into a wire). It is characterized by the material flowing under shear stress. It is contrasted with brittleness.
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ductile
Adjective
1. easily influenced
(synonym) malleable
(similar) tractable, manipulable
2. 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"
(synonym) malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile
(similar) elastic


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ductile
adj. ductile, flexible

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Ductile
(a.)
Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
  
 
(a.)
Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
  

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