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Vinony

malleability

noun

  1. substance's ability to deform under pressure (compressive stress)
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. The quality or state of being malleable.
  2. The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
  3. a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext