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Malleability vs Elasticity - What's the difference?

malleability | elasticity |

As nouns the difference between malleability and elasticity

is that malleability is the quality or state of being malleable while elasticity is (physics) the property by virtue of which a material deformed under the load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded.

malleability

English

Noun

  • The quality or state of being malleable.
  • The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
  • (cryptography) a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

    • Antonyms

    * brittleness * friability

    References

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    elasticity

    English

    Noun

  • (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under the load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
  • (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
    • If the sales of an item drop by 5 % when the price increases by 10 %, its price elasticity is -0.5.
  • The quality of being elastic.
  • Adaptability.

    • Derived terms

    * inelasticity