ductility

English

Bars after tensile testing.
(a) Zero ductility
(b) Medium ductility
(c) Complete ductility

Etymology

From ductile +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dʌkˈtɪlɪdi/

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• Hyphenation: duc‧til‧i‧ty
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

ductility (countable and uncountable, plural ductilities)

1. (physics) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.

Translations

ability of material

• Bulgarian: разтегливост (bg) f (razteglivost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 延性 (zh) (yánxìng)

• Czech: tažnost f
• Dutch: taaiheid (nl)
• Finnish: venyvyys (fi)
• French: ductilité (fr) f
• German: Verformbarkeit
• Italian: duttilità (it) f
• Lithuanian: tąsumas m
• Macedonian: ковност f (kovnost)
• Malayalam: തന്യത (tanyata)
• Russian: ковкость (ru) (kovkostʹ), тягучесть (ru) (tjagučestʹ)
• Slovak: kujnosť, pružnosť f
• Spanish: ductilidad (es) f
• Telugu: తన్యత (te) (tanyata)
• Turkish: süneklik (tr)