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  • noun The quality or degree of being formable.

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Examples

  • First the money race, and of course whether we like it or not, the campaign war chest points to formability.

    Dominic Carter: Is Christine Quinn the Next Mayor of NYC? Dominic Carter 2012

  • First the money race, and of course whether we like it or not, the campaign war chest points to formability.

    Dominic Carter: Is Christine Quinn the Next Mayor of NYC? Dominic Carter 2012

  • High-strength ductility, formability and weldability

    Chapter 5 1984

  • I seem to myself to be a mere conjuror's apparatus, an instrument of vision and perception, a person without personality, a subject without any determined individuality -- an instance, to speak technically, of pure "determinability" and "formability," and therefore

    Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

  • The APL™ process combines Shiloh's expertise in formability and NVH with its proprietary adhesive technology to provide a highly effective cold-formed viscoelastic damping material.

    unknown title 2012

  • Shiloh's extensive knowledge of stamping and metal formability aids in the Company's APL™ development objectives to achieve efficient cold-forming and meet noise and vibration damping requirements.

    unknown title 2012

  • The lightweight, formability and strength of our Reynobond ACM products allow architects to achieve designs that are not feasible with other materials.

    unknown title 2011

  • But if we assume the time as excluded, the line vanishes, and we leave space dimensionless, an indistinguishable ALL, and therefore the representative of absolute weakness and formlessness, but, for that very reason, of infinite capacity and formability.

    Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Free-cutting brass rod, which exhibits outstanding machinability and good corrosion resistance, and brass strip, which has high strength, corrosion resistance, excellent formability, and good electrical properties, together constitute about 80% of the total tonnage of copper alloys shipped from U.S. brass mills.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Free-cutting brass rod, which exhibits outstanding machinability and good corrosion resistance, and brass strip, which has high strength, corrosion resistance, excellent formability, and good electrical properties, together constitute about 80% of the total tonnage of copper alloys shipped from U.S. brass mills.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

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