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Bending vs Malleable - What's the difference?

bending | malleable |

As a verb bending

is .

As a noun bending

is a motion or action that bends.

As an adjective malleable is

malleable (able to be hammered into thin sheets).

bending

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A motion or action that bends.
    • ----

    malleable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
  • (metaphorical ) 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

    • Related terms

    * malleability * malleableness * malleably * malleate

    Coordinate terms

    * ductile

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