MALLEABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malleability mean? 

• MALLEABILITY (noun)
  The noun MALLEABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking

  Familiarity information: MALLEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALLEABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

malleability; plasticity

Hypernyms ("malleability" is a kind of...):

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malleability"):

ductileness; ductility (the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets)

flexibility; flexibleness (the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped)

Antonym:

unmalleability (a lack of malleability)

Derivation:

malleable (capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out)

 Context examples 

The word “plastic” in “plastic crystals” refers not to its chemical composition but rather to its malleability.

(Green material for refrigeration identified, University of Cambridge)

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Electropositive chemical elements characterised by ductility, malleability, luster, and conductance of heat and electricity.

(Metal, NCI Thesaurus)

An electropositive element that can increase the risk of human cancer and is characterized by ductility, malleability, luster, the ability to conduct heat and electricity and the tendency to lose rather than gain electrons in chemicals.

(Carcinogenic Metal, NCI Thesaurus)