ductility

ductility

English

Bars after tensile testing.
(a) Zero ductility
(b) Medium ductility
(c) Complete ductility

Etymology

From ductile +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dʌkˈtɪlɪdi/

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• Hyphenation: duc‧til‧i‧ty
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

ductility (countable and uncountable, plural ductilities)

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

Translations

ability of material

Bulgarian: разтегливост (bg) f (razteglivost) Chinese: Mandarin: 延性 (zh) (yánxìng) Czech: tažnost f Dutch: taaiheid (nl) Finnish: venyvyys (fi) French: ductilité (fr) f German: Verformbarkeit

Italian: duttilità (it) f Lithuanian: tąsumas m Macedonian: ковност f (kovnost) Russian: ковкость (ru) (kovkostʹ), тягучесть (ru) (tjagučestʹ) Slovak: kujnosť, pružnosť f Spanish: ductilidad (es) f Telugu: తన్యత (te) (tanyata) Turkish: süneklik (tr)