malleable
See also: malléable
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French malléable, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin malleābilis, derived from malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *melH₂- (“crush, grind”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: mal‧le‧a‧ble
Adjective
malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)
- Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
- (figurative) Flexible, liable to change.
- My opinion on the subject is malleable.
- (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
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Translations
able to be hammered into thin sheets
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liable to change
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References
- “malleable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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