ductile
IPA: dˈʌktʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
- Molded easily into a new form.
- (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
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Examples of "ductile" in Sentences
- It is also ductile, meaning it can be drawn into wire.
- "That can actually trigger a phenomenon we know as ductile failure," Dr Fusseis said.
- 'ductile' in speaking of dead clay, and Duke, Doge, or leader, in speaking of living clay.
- In addition, aluminum is ductile, that is, it can be drawn into wires or pressed into sheets or foil.
- In a BMG composite the BMG is the matrix and a ductile crystalline-phase is the reinforcement material.
- First, it is ductile, meaning it is extremely hard to break and naturally returns to its original shape.
- He writes "ductile" to say that when he flings his thread everywhere in search for security, he brings in different beliefs and religions.
- roomservice taco, you said gold is ductile aka. malleable ... anon 1:31 can only read in phonetics so he/she saw "Duct Tile" and viola, one funny comment
- 426 MO ESHANI: Well, Anderson, you know, structural engineers, we usually design buildings so that if they are going to fail, they would fail in a mode that we call a ductile mode of failure and basically, in that mode, the members would sag and deflect a lot so that they would give plenty of warning before the failure.
- Grasping her prey with her legs and jaws, in another moment the wriggling body is passive in her grasp, subdued by the potent anæsthetic of her sting -- a hypodermic injection which instantly produces the semblance of death in its insect victim, reducing all the vital functions to the point of dissolution, and then holds them suspended -- literally prolongs life, it would sometimes seem, even beyond its normal duration -- by a process which I might call ductile equation.
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