malleable

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from Latin malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of *melh₂- (“crush, grind”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.iː.ə.bəl/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈmæɫiəbɫ̩]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈmaɫiəbəɫ]
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɫiəbɫ̩], [-bɯ]

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• Hyphenation: mal‧le‧a‧ble

malleable (comparative more malleable, superlative most malleable)

1. Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
2. (figurative) Flexible, liable to change.

   My opinion on the subject is malleable.

3. (cryptography, of an algorithm) in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

• ductile

• malleability
• malleableness
• malleably
• malleate

• “malleable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.