Plasticity Definition

plăs-tĭs ′ ĭ-tē
noun
The ability to change and adapt, especially the ability of the central nervous system to acquire alternative pathways for sensory perception or motor skills.
American Heritage Medicine

The quality or state of being plastic.

Wiktionary

(physics) The property of a solid body whereby it undergoes a permanent change in shape or size when subjected to a stress exceeding a particular value (the yield value)

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Antonyms:
  • unmalleability

Other Word Forms of Plasticity

Noun

Singular:
plasticity
Plural:
plasticities

Plasticity Sentence Examples

  • Nothing better shows the plasticity of her character than the ease with which she adapted herself to this sudden change.

  • This plasticity is, however, itself hereditary.

  • Tresca show that the plasticity of certain metals at least goes considerably farther than had before been supposed.

  • Pure lead isa feebly lustrous bluishwhite metal, endowed with a characteristically high degree of softness and plasticity, and almost entirely devoid of elasticity.

  • Closely related to the structure of metals is their degree of "plasticity" (susceptibility of being constrained into new forms without breach of continuity).

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