malleability

English

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Noun

malleability (countable and uncountable, plural malleabilities)

1. The quality or state of being malleable.
2. 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. (cryptography) a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Antonyms

• brittleness
• friability

Translations

the quality or state of being malleable

• Bulgarian: ковкост (bg) f (kovkost)
• Czech: kujnost (cs) f
• Dutch: smeedbaarheid, buigzaamheid (nl), wendbaarheid (nl)
• Finnish: taottavuus (fi)
• German: Schmiedbarkeit f, Biegsamkeit f, Geschmeidigkeit (de) f
• Macedonian: ковност f (kovnost)
• Malay: kebolehtempaan
• Malayalam: സ്തരത (ml) (starata)
• Manx: so-lhoobaght f
• Persian: انعطاف پذیری (en'etâf paziri)
• Romanian: maleabilitate (ro) f
• Slovak: tvárnosť f
• Spanish: maleabilidad f
• Tagalog: pagkapukpukin

References

• “malleability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.