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What is the difference between ductile and malleable?

ductile | malleable |

Malleable is a coordinate term of ductile.



As adjectives the difference between ductile and malleable

is that ductile is capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking while malleable is able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.

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 ----

    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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