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Biegsamkeit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • flex verb To bend a joint or tighten a muscle, often to show strength.
  • malleability noun The quality or state of being malleable.
  • pliability noun The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; pliableness.

Senses

Biegsamkeit is used for these senses in English:

  • flex (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
  • malleability The quality or state of being malleable.

flex — full definition

  1. verb To bend a joint or tighten a muscle, often to show strength.
  2. verb To show off or boast, often about wealth, status, or ability (informal).
  3. noun A flexible insulated electrical cord or cable (chiefly British).
  4. noun An instance of boasting or showing off (informal).

malleability — full definition

  1. noun The quality or state of being malleable.
  2. noun 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. noun a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

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