Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Capacity for change of form; pliability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
deformable - noun countable A measure of the extent to which something is deformable (under standard conditions)
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Examples
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"Bulk silicon is very brittle and has limited deformability, meaning that it cannot be stretched or warped very much without breaking." says Feng Xu, a Ph.D. student at NC state and co-author of the paper, "But the silicon nanowires are more resilient, and can sustain much larger deformation.
cellular-news 2009
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But the drug wasn't significantly different from a placebo in two key measures -- the deformability of plaques and a measure of inflammation.
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The effectiveness of the bituminous sealing is based on its waterproofness and its deformability.
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A striking increase in cell invasiveness was observed once the cells were treated with the bioactive lipid sphingosylphosphorylcholine (SPC) that leads to a reorganization of the cell's keratin network, an enhancement of the cell's deformability, and also an increase in the cell's migration speed on flat surfaces.
Elites TV 2010
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"The deformability of red blood cells is their most important property," said Popescu, also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at U. of I. "What we wanted to find is, how does deformability relate to morphology?"
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This deformability, however, permits more than just movement.
Aftermath News pjwalker911 2010
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"The deformability of particles makes them very different from atoms or hard colloids," says author Arash Nikoubashman of Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"The deformability of red blood cells is their most important property," said Popescu, also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at U. of I. "What we wanted to find is, how does deformability relate to morphology?"
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"The deformability of red blood cells is their most important property," said Popescu, also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at U. of I. "What we wanted to find is, how does deformability relate to morphology?"
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The Rockefeller University and colleagues in Japan have devised a contraption sensitive enough to probe and ply these microscopic spindles and have used it to measure for the first time the structure's stiffness and deformability.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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