| 单词 | plasticity |
| 释义 | plasticity (once / 20344 pages) n Plasticity means "changeability" or "moldability" — clay has a lot of plasticity, but a rock has almost none. It helps to think of plastic when learning what plasticity means. See how plastic can be molded into all sorts of things, and even when it's in a totally solid form, it's not hard like stone? Plasticity refers to things that can still change their shape or function. The brain is something with high plasticity: if you have a brain injury, other parts of the brain can change to pick up the slack. Anything that is capable of evolving or being reshaped has plasticity. WORD FAMILYplastic: plastically, plasticise, plasticity, plasticize, plastics+/plasticise: plasticiser/plasticize: plasticized, plasticizer, plasticizing/plasticizer: plasticizers USAGE EXAMPLES“We believe this is the first study to provide direct evidence of reduced plasticity in the brain in dyslexia,” he says. Time(Dec 21, 2016) Tests on mice showed injecting the cells increased the strength, plasticity and structure of the animal's bones. BBC(Dec 20, 2016) This achieved the desired result of differentiating textures, but at the expense of plasticity. Washington Post(Nov 14, 2016) n the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper malleability unmalleability a lack of malleability ductileness, ductility the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets flexibility, flexiblenessthe property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped bendability, pliabilitythe property of being easily bent without breaking whip(golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club physical property any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions |
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