From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishplasticityplas‧tic‧i‧ty /plæˈstɪsəti/ noun [uncountable] technicalAVSHAPE the quality of being easily made into any shape, and of staying in that shape until someone changes it
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plasticity• While this may be true, we should remember the fragility and plasticity of the human psyche.• Another obvious way of increasing plasticity is to mix a relatively fine plastic clay with a stiff clay.• This strengthens the claim that there are real universal biochemical principles involved in such mechanisms of neural plasticity.• This allows clays to become plastic so that they can be shaped-the property of plasticity.• In general their presence increases the clay's plasticity.• Alterations in this component could provide a means by which synapses increase their plasticity, as well as their efficiency. 