Ductility vs. Malleability

Ductilitynoun

(physics) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.

Ductilitynoun

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

Ductilitynoun

Tractableness; pliableness.

Ductilitynoun

the malleability of something that can be drawing into wires or hammered into thin sheets

Ductility

Ductility is a mechanical property commonly described as a material's amenability to drawing (e.g. into wire).

Malleabilitynoun

The quality or state of being malleable.

Malleabilitynoun

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.

Malleabilitynoun

(cryptography) a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Malleabilitynoun

The quality or state of being malleable; - opposed to friability and brittleness.

Malleabilitynoun

the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped under pressure without breaking