'Ductileness' definitions:
Definition of 'ductileness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets [syn: ductility, ductileness]
Definition of 'Ductileness'
From: GCIDE
- Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F. ductile. See Duct.]
- 1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. --Philips. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. [1913 Webster]
- Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals. --Dryden. -- {Duc"tile*ly}, adv. -- {Duc"tile*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]