plastically

Examples

• All

• This is fairly rare on Earth, but on Venus, the rocks are at a temperature that is about half their melting point, and they tend to behave plastically.

  Academic text (1991)

• Because of the relatively low hardness of today's Ni-P/Al-Mg substrate, head-disk impacts can plastically deform and permanently damage the surface, with a loss of recorded data.

  Academic text (1996)

• "They begin to flow plastically.

  Academic text (2001)

• Below this transition zone, rocks deform plastically, which reduces the permeability effectively to zero.

  Academic text (2002)

• Ductility, the ability to plastically deform—to bend without breaking, for instance—is a trouble area for BMGs.

  Academic text (2012)

• Unfortunately, the effect was never more than local: "Plastically, spatially, neither the tack nor the tassel-and-stud acts upon the picture; each suggests illusion without making it really present." (n25)

  Academic text (2002)

• The emanatory nature of God is described plastically by Bacharach, Saruk's disciple, as follows: "The nature of goodness is to emanate goodness, and if there is no world, to whom shall He emanate goodness?"

  Academic text (1990)

• At higher velocities, however, the correlation breaks down as materials plastically deform and erode when the impact pressure from the target approaches the finite yield strength of the penetrator: YP?tv (see figure 3).

  Academic text (2003)

• The clay can be shaped plastically when heated, allowing artists to create intricate designs.

• During the experiment, the material deformed plastically, demonstrating its ability to withstand stress without breaking.

Synonyms

I

inelastically

vsplastically

• Specialized

1 7.8

In a way that does not stretch or return to shape when force is applied

changes shape or deforms easily when force or pressure is applied

How Moldable

pliantly

1 5.1

plastically

• Specialized

1 7.5

firmly

102 1.0

rigidly

10 4.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology