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[syn: ductility, ductileness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F.
ductile. See Duct.]
1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
--Addison.
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Forms their ductile minds
To human virtues. --Philips.
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2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
threads.
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Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
metals. --Dryden.
-- Duc"tile*ly, adv. -- Duc"tile*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ductileness
n 1: the malleability of something that can be drawn into
threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets [syn:
ductility, ductileness]