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Pliability vs Plasticity - What's the difference?

pliability | plasticity |

As nouns the difference between pliability and plasticity

is that pliability is the quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; pliableness while plasticity is the quality or state of being.

pliability

English

Noun

(pliabilities)
  • The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; pliableness.

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    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