
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin malleābilis, from malleāre, to hammer, from Latin malleus, hammer.]
malleability mal'le·a·bil'i·ty or mal'le·a·ble·ness n.SYNONYMS malleable, ductile, plastic, pliable, pliant. These adjectives mean capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out: malleable metals such as gold and silver; ductile copper; a plastic substance such as wax; soaked the leather to make it pliable; pliant molten glass.
adjective
Can be flattened out by pounding, a characteristic of the native metals and of the metals freed from ores in blowpipe testing.
Lead is quite a malleable metal and can be easily pounded flat.
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Susceptible of being beaten out into a thin plate.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - letbearbejdelig, medgørlig, føjelig
Nederlands (Dutch)
hamerbaar, plooi-/ vormbaar
Français (French)
adj. - malléable
Deutsch (German)
adj. - formbar
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ελάσιμος, σφυρηλατήσιμος, εύπλαστος, μαλακός, διαμορφώσιμος
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - maleável
Русский (Russian)
ковкий, податливый
Español (Spanish)
adj. - maleable, flexible, adaptable, dócil
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - smidbar, foglig
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
有延展性的, 可锻的
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有延展性的, 可鍛的
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 버릴 수 있는, 유순한, 적응성 있는
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 鍛えられる, 柔順な, 従順な
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) طيع, مطواع, قابل للطرق
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ניתן לעיצוב, סגיל, חשיל, ניתן לאילוף
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