malleability
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noun
Freq #188938
Meanings
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1
noun
the property of being physically malleable
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2
noun
The quality or state of being malleable.
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3
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.
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4
noun
a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
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Synonyms
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noun
· the property of being...
plasticity
Opposites
brittlenessfriability
Word family
Derived forms
unmalleability