malleable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Flexible, liable to change.

   My opinion on the subject is malleable.

2. 2
   adj

   capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

3. 3
   adj

   easily influenced

4. 4
   adj

   Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

5. 5
   adj

   in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Etymology

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).