malleability

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

the quality or state of being malleable

• Finnish: taottavuus (fi)
• German: Schmiedbarkeit (de) f, Biegsamkeit (de) f, Geschmeidigkeit (de) f
• Manx: so-lhoobaght (gv) f

• Romanian: maleabilitate (ro) f
• Spanish: maleabilidad (es) f

References

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