Malleability

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Malleability \Mal"le*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [CF. F.
     mall['e]abilit['e].]
     The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to
     {friability} and {brittleness}. --Locke.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  malleability
       n : the property of being physically malleable; the property of
           something that can be worked or hammered or shaped under
           pressure without breaking [syn: {plasticity}] [ant: {unmalleability}]