malleability

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malleability

noun malleabilities

  1. countable, uncountable The quality or state of being malleable.
  2. countable, uncountable The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
  3. countable, uncountable A property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext.

Opposite: brittleness, friability

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noun

Opposite: brittleness, friability

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noun the quality or state of being malleable

Españolmaleabilidad
DeutschSchmiedbarkeit, Biegsamkeit, Geschmeidigkeit
Românămaleabilitate

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@misc{malleability_2026,
  title = {malleability},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/malleability},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}