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plasticity

[pla-stis-i-tee]

noun

the quality or state of being plastic.

the capability of being molded, receiving shape, or being made to assume a desired form: the plasticity of social institutions; the great plasticity of clay.

Origin:
1775–85; plastic + -ity

Related forms

non·plas·tic·i·ty, noun

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Accordingly, it rewards those who retain a certain plasticity of mind and personality.

Explore the remarkable plasticity of a baby's brain and see how early experiences influence human development.

Researchers continue to probe the limits of the brain's plasticity.

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Accordingly, it rewards those who retain a certain plasticity of mind and personality.

Explore the remarkable plasticity of a baby's brain and see how early experiences influence human development.

Researchers continue to probe the limits of the brain's plasticity.

Instead, researchers have used brain imaging to study plasticity resulting from natural sensory deprivation in people.

Growth exhibits a broad range of plasticity in the absence of natural selection.

Scientists have discovered evidence of such life-stage plasticity among a variety of species.

The brain's plasticity is even greater than suspected.

Video game play induces plasticity in the visual system of adults withamblyiopia.

And this he does with a fine achievement of pictorial plasticity and power.

Our children wield their adaptive plasticity amid small but horrific risks.

Plasticity in neural processes is a feature of brains.

Here there were no straight lines: the plasticity of the salt caused walls.

The story of reading's development is a complex tale of equal parts human invention and neural plasticity.

There was something about his innovation and his plasticity about design.

If a specific brain region is impaired the male brain, on average, has less plasticity and ability to reprogram.

The rigidity of human reason was no match for the plasticity of microbes.

The experiment revealed unexpected plasticity in the mammalian brain.

These qualities give it a remarkable plasticity but prevent it from being thrown on a pottery wheel.

Homeostatic plasticity drives tinnitus perception in an animal model.

Thanks to will and hard work, the brain's gift for plasticity and our homemade speech therapy, he's talking and writing again.

The main difference between human and animal brains would appear to be the much greater plasticity of the former.

Postlewaite has been better coached in the plasticity of the.

The plasticity and adaptability of the human mind beggars belief.

The plasticity of the brain provides life-course opportunities for resilience and enhanced mental health.

He studies synaptic processing and plasticity in the auditory system.

Gillot exhibited a ramrod stiffness of the torso that detracted from the fluid plasticity that the choreography demands.

Broadening our knowledge of visual perceptual learning and plasticity may hold some answers.

But the existence of neural plasticity does not mean the brain is a blob of clay pounded into shape by experience.

There are many studies that probably argue in favor of localization in terms of plasticity as well.

Numerous studies indicate that plasticity in the brain is a lifelong exper.

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plasticity (plæˈstɪsɪtɪ)

—n
1.	the quality of being plastic or able to be moulded
2.	(in pictorial art) the quality of depicting space and form so that they appear three-dimensional

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