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Plasticity vs Flexibility - What's the difference?

plasticity | flexibility |

As nouns the difference between plasticity and flexibility

is that plasticity is the quality or state of being plastic while flexibility is the quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.

plasticity

English

(wikipedia plasticity)

Noun

  • The quality or state of being .
  • (physics) the property of a solid body whereby it undergoes a permanent change in shape or size when subjected to a stress exceeding a particular value (the yield value)

    • Related terms

    * elasticity

    flexibility

    English

    (wikipedia flexibility)

    Noun

  • The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
  • The quality of having options. "I have some flexibility."

    • Related terms

    * flex * labour market flexibility * low temperature flexibility