Plasticity

3 definitions found

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

  Plasticity \Plas*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plasticit['e].]
     1. The quality or state of being plastic.
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     2. (Physiol.) Plastic force. --Dunglison.
        [1913 Webster] Plastid



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "plasticity":
     adaptability, adjustability, agreeability, agreeableness,
     alterability, amenability, aptitude, aptness, bendability,
     biddability, brightness, changeability, changeableness,
     changefulness, cleverness, compliableness, docility, ductibility,
     ductility, educability, elasticity, extendibility, extensibility,
     facility, fictility, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness,
     fluidity, formativeness, give, impermanence, impressionability,
     intelligence, limberness, litheness, malleability, mobility,
     modifiability, moldability, motivation, movability, mutability,
     nonuniformity, permutability, pliability, pliancy, quickness,
     readiness, receptiveness, receptivity, resilience, responsiveness,
     rubberiness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility,
     springiness, submissiveness, subservience, suppleness,
     susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, tensileness,
     tensility, tractability, tractility, trainableness, transience,
     transitoriness, willingness, willowiness, yieldingness