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What does ductile mean?

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

Adjective
  1. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
  2. Molded easily into a new form.
  3. (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
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They are ductile and do not exhibit a foraminous structure like sponge iron.
We plan to do additional work to improve the quality of carbon nanotube dispersion and use more ductile binder resins.
This dilated carapace is weak, slippery and ductile when wet, but brittle and elastic when dry.
In ductile materials, these stress concentrations may be relieved by creep and stress relaxation in the matrix or by grain-boundary migration.
Dual-phase steels, which feature hard martensite particles in a soft ductile ferrite matrix are also highly formable.
The aluminum block has ductile iron cylinder liners and is filled with JE pistons.

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