malleable

From Middle French malléable, borrowed from Late Latin malleābilis, derived from malleāre (“to hammer”), from malleus (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *mal-ni- (“crushing”), an extended variant of Proto-Indo-European *melH₂- (“crush, grind”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæli.əbəl/

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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. (figuratively) 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

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• malleable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.