Meaning brittle
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brittleadj. ~ Fragile from a loss of flexibility, causing the material to break or crack, rather than bend or fold.
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brittleStructural behavior in which a material deforms permanently by fracturing.
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brittlelate 14c., britel, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English adjective *brytel, related to brytan "to crush, pound, to break to pieces," from Proto-Germanic stem *brutila- "brittle," [..]
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brittleA classification of material that deforms little before failure, such as glass.
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brittleForm of tenacity which describes a mineral that gets hammered or scratched and results in a fine powder or small crumbs. Minerals that are not brittle are referred as nonbrittle. Brittle minerals leav [..]
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brittlefragile or easily broken.
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brittleeasily breakable
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brittleadj. Fragile.
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brittleadj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropri [..]
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brittleThe condition of being easily broken or shattered. In time, acid papers turn yellow and become brittle, tearing easily and even crumbling under normal use (click here and here to see examples). For pa [..]
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brittleA material that fractures easily such as cement.
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brittlesnaps without stretching or bending when subject to stress
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brittle(adj) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured(adj) lacking warmth and generosity of spirit(adj) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or sna [..]
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brittleEasily shattered or broken (Lessons 9, 26)
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brittleBreaks or powders easily. A type of tenacity.
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brittleA mineral characteristic describing its tenacity. A brittle mineral is easily broken into many pieces with a slight blow of a hammer.
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brittleForm of tenacity which describes a mineral that gets hammered and results in a fine powder or small crumbs. Minerals that are not brittle are referred as Nonbrittle minerals. Brittle minerals leave a [..]
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brittleA mineral that is easily reduced to a powder by cutting or hammering.
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brittleA brittle structure or material exhibits low ductility, meaning that it exhibits very little inelastic deformation before complete failure. back to topC
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