(a.) Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
(a.) Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mechanical and biomechanical testing of a new bone cement suggests that improved load transfer to the proximal femur could be achieved with the combination of a cement having a lower modulus, a greater ductility and a lower creep resistance than polymethylmethacrylate and a suitably shaped femoral component.
(2) The above materials were generally ductile and the mechanical properties indicated a useful class of materials for clinical use.
(3) Results indicated that excellent welds can be obtained with very little loss of strength and ductility in the area of the weld joint.
(4) These materials could not be used in load-bearing applications because of the excessive grain growth and loss of the wrought structure of both the commercially pure Ti and Ti-6Al-4V substrates, and the loss of ductility in the cast Co-Cr-Mo alloy.
(5) Cast and hot isostatically pressed Ti-6Al-4V, however, has a relatively low ductility and reduced fatigue properties.
(6) Furthermore, it has been shown that the attainment of suitable strength is invariably associated with an unacceptable level of ductility.
(7) The effect of stress on a cantilever, consisting of a ductile alloy in contact with a brittle polymer, was demonstrated to be complex.
(8) The presence of the urethane bond at the N-terminus protecting group was found to reduce solubility, ductility, and processibility, probably due to interchain hydrogen bonding.
(9) Analysis of the stress-strain curves revealed a transition in the type of deformation at this point from pseudo-ductile to brittle.
(10) This composition is consistent with the hypothesis that the cement line provides a relatively ductile interface with surrounding bone matrix, and that it provides the point specific stiffness differences, poor 'fiber'-matrix bonding and energy transfer qualities required to promote crack initiation but slow crack growth in compact bone.
(11) The parameters used to assess performance were sharpness, resistance to bending, and ductility.
(12) maize starch and polymeric materials, there was an increase in the yield pressure with punch velocity attributable to a change either from ductile to brittle behaviour or a reduction in the amount of plastic deformation due to the time dependent nature of plastic flow.
(13) The purpose of this research was to evaluate the torsional strength and ductility of CP titanium in the as received condition, heat treated below the alpha----beta transition temperature, and glass bead blasted.
(14) In the present effort, the same flexure tests were reevaluated to include the parameters of stiffness, toughness, and ductility.
(15) The proximal end is ductile and the distal end rigid.
(16) A more ductile PLLA exhibiting a lower rate of degradation was prepared by extraction of low molecular weight compounds with ethyl acetate.
(17) The ductility and malleability of pure silver allow for ease of adaptation or alteration as a chairside or operating room procedure.
(18) (3) The simulated ceramic firing cycle created a small amount of ductility in SMG-2, but the lowering of the yield stress in Ceramco-0 renders the welds dangerously weak even with improved ductility.
(19) The fracture of the titanium specimens was ductile, with dimples occurring at the fracture surfaces.
(20) The superior ductility of needles made by one manufacturer was related to the specific alloy, stainless steel ASTM 45500, used in their production.
Stretch
Definition:
(v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
(v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
(v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
(v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
(v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
(v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
(v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
(v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
(v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
(v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
(n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
(n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
(n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.
(n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
(n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
(2) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(3) Mechanosensitive ion channels may play a key role in transducing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) stretch into active force development.
(4) Endothelial release of the arachidonate derivative PGI2 may be increased in response to cyclic lung stretching.
(5) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(6) The maximum force level reached during the stretch was affected very little.
(7) Cerebral angiogram displayed a contralateral shift and an unrolling of the anterior cerebral artery, a lateral stretch of middle cerebral artery, a downward stretch of anterior choroidal artery and a tumor stain fed by the Heubner artery.
(8) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(9) Phycomyces sporangiophores respond to four distinct physical stimuli: gravity, light, stretch, and an avoidance stimulus.
(10) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
(11) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(12) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
(13) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
(14) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(15) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(16) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(17) The presence of a form of stretch reflex, previously described in the arm by other authors, has been confirmed in the gastrocnemius muscle of the human leg.
(18) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
(19) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
(20) This figure suggests that, unless there are substantial stretches of free DNA, the polyoma nucleoprotein complex contains about 26 nucleosomes.