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ductility|dʌkˈtɪlɪtɪ|
[f. ductile + -ity, after L. type *ductilitās: cf. F. ductilité (1701 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The quality of being ductile.
1. Capability of being extended by beating, drawn out into wire, worked upon, or bent; malleability, pliableness, flexibility.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 44 This Ductility of Spirit commendeth Men, as well as that other doth Mettals. 1683Evelyn Diary 19 Sept., I stepp'd into a goldbeaters work⁓house, where he shew'd me the wonderfull ductilitie of that spreading and oylie metall. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 435 Argillaceous earth is distinguishable from..a certain viscidity and ductility, which proceed from its power of retaining water. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 364 The ductility of platina is such, that it has been drawn into wire of less than the two-thousandth part of an inch in diameter. 1881Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 407 Supposing that glacier ice enjoys a kind of ductility.
b. transf. and fig.
1654[see prec.]. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. III. ix. i. 164 Never was there ductility of genius equal to his. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 202 Greater ductility and energy of language.
2. Capability of being easily led or influenced; tractableness, docility.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 220 Calling Obstinacy, Solidity; and humble Ductility after further Reason, and Discovery, Sceptick Inconstancy. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) I. 46 (Remise Door) As I led her on, I felt a pleasurable ductility about her. 1880Kinglake Crimea VI. ix. 247 A spirit of servile ductility. |