Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That property of solid bodies, particularly metals, which renders them capable of being extended by drawing, with correlative diminution of their thickness or diameter, without any actual fracture or separation of parts.
- noun Flexibility; adjustability; ready compliance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.
- noun Tractableness; pliableness.
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- noun physics Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without
fracture under the action of atensile force.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets
Etymologies
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Examples
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Silver has always been selected for the better household utensils, not only on account of its beauty, but also because of its ductility, which is desirable in making larger vessels; its value, too, is less than that of gold, so that articles which would be quite out of the reach of most householders, if made in gold, become very available in silver.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Commonly, the term "ductility" is used to refer to both concepts, as they are very similar.
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"ductility," the ability to adapt to high-pressure loads.
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"ductility," the ability to adapt to high-pressure loads.
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To resist heat checking, die materials should have a low coefficient of thermal expansion, high thermal conductivity, high hot yield strength, good temper softening resistance, high creep strength, and adequate ductility.
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The ductility of the columns—that is, their ability to deform under stress without breaking—and the asymmetrical layout of the shear walls, which are meant to resist horizontal force, were found to have not met the building standards of the day, it said.
New Zealand: Collapsed Building Was Substandard Rebecca Howard 2012
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The weight, ductility and imperishability of gold, for example, have underpinned its status as a substance of beauty, value and permanence since antiquity.
Periodic Table Talk Mike Jay 2011
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"Our three North American automotive continuous-annealing lines, as well as some of our continuous-galvanizing lines, are capable of making the third-generation advanced high-strength steels that exhibit tensile strengths over 1,000 Megapascals with good ductility," says Blake Zuidema , director for automotive production applications at ArcelorMittal.
New Steel Rolled Out for Cars John W. Miller 2012
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These composites combine the ductility, fracture toughness and plasticity of conventional metals with the high strength of pure BMG.
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Like the 7-series, the Ghost is a steel-bodied car with the approximate ductility of a submarine hatch.
Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010
artm commented on the word ductility
Fine silver is generally too soft for producing large functional objects; therefore, the silver is usually alloyed with copper to give it strength, while at the same time preserving the ductility and beauty of the precious metal.
May 27, 2009