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DUCTILENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ductileness mean?
• DUCTILENESS (noun)
The noun DUCTILENESS has 1 sense:
1. the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets
Familiarity information: DUCTILENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ductileness; ductility
Hypernyms ("ductileness" is a kind of...):
malleability; plasticity (the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking)
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