plasticity

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plasticity
n. flexibility, pliability, pliancy, elasticity, malleability

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Plasticity
Plasticity may refer to:
Science
  • Plasticity (physics), in physics and engineering, plasticity is the propensity of a material to undergo permanent deformation under load.
  • Neuroplasticity, in neuroscience, how entire brain structures, and the brain itself, can change from experience
    • Synaptic plasticity, the property of a neuron or synapse to change its internal parameters in response to its history
    • Metaplasticity, the plasticity of synaptic plasticity
  • Phenotypic plasticity, in biology, describes the ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to changes in the environment

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plasticity

Noun
1. the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped under pressure without breaking
(synonym) malleability
(hypernym) physical property
(hyponym) ductility


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Plasticity
(n.)
The quality or state of being plastic.
  
 
(n.)
Plastic force.
  

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plasticity
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شکل پذيري, نرمي