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Ductile vs Deformable - What's the difference?

ductile | deformable |

As adjectives the difference between ductile and deformable

is that ductile is capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking while deformable is deformable.

ductile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
  • Molded easily into a new form.
  • (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.

    • Synonyms

    * (molded easily) flexible, plastic, pliant; see also * (led easily) tractable

    Antonyms

    * (capable of being pulled into thin wire) brittle

    Coordinate terms

    * malleable

    Related terms

    * duct * ductility

    See also

    * elastic ----

    deformable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being reshaped.
    • The adaptive optical systems in modern astronomical telescopes compensate for atmospheric distortion by using deformable mirrors.