plasticity

Meanings

Plural: plasticities

Noun

• the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking
• The quality or state of being plastic.
• The property of a solid body whereby it undergoes a permanent change in shape or size when subjected to a stress exceeding a particular value (the yield value).

Synonyms

malleability

Antonyms

unmalleability