ductile

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌk.taɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌk.təl/, /ˈdʌk.taɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌktaɪl

ductile (comparative more ductile, superlative most ductile)

1. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
2. Molded easily into a new form.
3. (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.

• (molded easily): flexible, plastic, pliant; see also Thesaurus:moldable
• (led easily): tractable

• (capable of being pulled into thin wire): brittle

• malleable

• duct
• ductility

• elastic

• dulcite

From Latin.

• IPA^(key): /dyk.til/

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ductile (plural ductiles)

1. ductile (capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire)

• “ductile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dulcite

ductile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of ductilis

• ductile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)