malleable
IPA: mˈæɫiʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
- (figurative) Flexible, liable to change.
- (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
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Examples of "malleable" in Sentences
- The metal can be extremely malleable.
- Massive gold is the most malleable metal.
- The metal is soft, malleable, and ductile.
- That is, the rank order of people in society is malleable.
- The beluga's melon is extremely bulbous and even malleable.
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