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What does malleable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word malleable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  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
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To the extent that the physical make-up of organisms provides heritable variation, it becomes a malleable clay that can be sculpted by selection.
He found that leather, highly malleable and easy to dye, was actually an ideal material for realistic sculpture.
Gold is soft enough to scratch with a fingernail, and the most malleable of metals.
Her character is weak and Steinbeck characterized her as an archetypical child, both capricious and malleable.
You might want to buy a cheap but malleable silver ring to practice on, or maybe a couple of them.
It starts off as a malleable glop, neither too stiff nor too liquid, which can be shaped in a mold, where it hardens.

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