different between malleable vs unmalleable

English

Etymology

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malle?bilis, derived from Latin malle?re (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh?- (“crush, grind”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæli.?b?l/
• Hyphenation: mal?le?a?ble

Adjective

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

1. Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
2. (figuratively) Flexible, liable to change.

3. (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Coordinate terms

• ductile

Related terms

• malleability
• malleableness
• malleably
• malleate

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References

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

English

Etymology

un- +? malleable

Adjective

unmalleable (comparative more unmalleable, superlative most unmalleable)

1. Not malleable.

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