Definition of Malleable

1. Adjective. Easily influenced.

Exact synonyms: Ductile
Similar to: Manipulable, Tractable

2. Adjective. Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out. "Made of highly tensile steel alloy"
Exact synonyms: Ductile, Pliable, Pliant, Tensile, Tractile
Similar to: Formed
Derivative terms: Ductility, Malleability, Pliability, Pliancy, Pliantness

Definition of Malleable

1. a. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

Definition of Malleable

1. 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. ¹

2. Adjective. (''metaphorical'') Flexible, liable to change. ¹

3. Adjective. (cryptography of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Malleable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Malleable

1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonised cast iron. See Iron. Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon. Origin: F. Malleable, fr. LL. Malleare to hammer. See Malleate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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