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  • noun The quality or degree of being bendable.

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  • noun the property of being easily bent without breaking

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Examples

  • Check the tiller (bendability) by holding the bow up-right by one limb, placing the other limb on the floor, and pushing firmly on the handle with your free hand to bend the bottom limb.

    Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps 2004

  • The deciding criteria in the use of Asbestos cement pipes are the resistance against inner and outer corrosion for most soils and waters, the low weight for small nominal diameters, the simple manufacturing of the pipe joint, the mobility lengthwise, the bendability in the sockets and also the smooth pipe wall.

    1. Introductory part: Asbestos - Deposits, uses, types, characteristics 1996

  • Is has a high stability and bendability in order to resist the strains during the grinding process.

    3. The Grinding Tools Johannes Schollbach 1993

  • The HSS-Irons are cast in soft proprietary alloy giving a "feel of forged" and bendability up to four degrees.

    unknown title 2009

  • The films, only a few microns thick, offer mechanical bendability that is not possible with thicker pieces of the same material.

    R&D Mag - News 2009

  • The films, only a few microns thick, offer mechanical bendability that is not possible with thicker pieces of the same material.

    R&D Mag - News 2009

  • The films, only a few microns thick, offer mechanical bendability that is not possible with thicker pieces of the same material.

    R&D Mag - News 2009

  • The films, only a few microns thick, offer mechanical bendability that is not possible with thicker pieces of the same material.

    R&D Mag - News 2009

  • The films, only a few microns thick, offer mechanical bendability that is not possible with thicker pieces of the same material.

    R&D Mag - News 2009

  • The films, only a few microns thick, offer mechanical bendability that is not possible with thicker pieces of the same material.

    R&D Mag - News 2009

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