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English

Noun

malleability (countable and uncountable, plural malleabilities)

1. The quality or state of being malleable.
2. The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
3. (cryptography) a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Antonyms

• brittleness
• friability

Translations

References

• malleability in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Latin malle?tus, perfect passive participle of *malle? (“beat with a hammer”), related to malleus (“a hammer, mallet”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?mæl.i.?t/, /?mæl.i.e?t/
• (verb): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?mæl.i.e?t/

Adjective

malleate (comparative more malleate, superlative most malleate)

1. (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
   • 2009, James H. Thorp & Alan P. Covich (eds.), Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd ed., page 181

     Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane.

2. (malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
   • 1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, "A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 40: 313

     The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.

Translations

Verb

malleate (third-person singular simple present malleates, present participle malleating, simple past and past participle malleated)

1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
   • 1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12

     Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

Translations

See also

• forge
• hammer

Related terms

• malleability
• malleable
• malleableness
• malleably
• mallet

Further reading

• malleate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• malleate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• malleate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Verb

malle?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of malle?