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ductile

adj
/ˈdʌk.taɪl/UK/ˈdʌk.təl/US

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin ductilis (“easily led”).

  1. derived from ductilis — “easily led”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.

    • ductile material
    • ductile shape
    • ductile alloy

  2. Molded easily into a new form.

    • their organisation was, by hereditary culture, much more ductile and more readily capable of acquiring knowledge than mine.

  3. Led easily

    Led easily; prone to follow.

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Derived

ductile fracture, ductile iron, ductilely, ductileness, ductilimeter, ductility, ductilize, inductile, nonductile, semiductile

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ductile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01ductile02force03newton04mass05assemble06gather07infer08imply09lead

A definitional loop anchored at ductile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at ductile

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA