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DUCTILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ductility mean? 

DUCTILITY (noun)
  The noun DUCTILITY has 1 sense:

1. the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheetsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DUCTILITY (noun)


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 ("ductility" 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)

Derivation:

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


 Context examples 


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)

Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)



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