Definition of plastic

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Plastic (a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child..

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Meloplastic :: Meloplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek..
Ectoplastic :: Ectoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm..
Fibrinoplastic :: Fibrinoplastic (a.) Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
Hyperplastic :: Hyperplastic (a.) Tending to excess of formative action.
Homogenous :: Homogenous (a.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic..
Autoplastic :: Autoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
Tonic :: Tonic (a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation..
Flexible :: Flexible (a.) Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language..
Proplastic :: Proplastic (a.) Forming a mold.
Fictor :: Fictor (n.) An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
Homoplastic :: Homoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms..
Endoplastica :: Endoplastica (n. pl.) A group of Rhizopoda having a distinct nucleus, as the am/ba..
Pliant :: Pliant (v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart..
Osteoplastic :: Osteoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the replacement of bone; as, an osteoplastic operation..
Ceroplastic :: Ceroplastic (a.) Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure..
Plastic :: plastic (n.) a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905.
Sculptor :: Sculptor (n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast..
Antiplastic :: Antiplastic (a.) Diminishing plasticity.
Plasticity :: Plasticity (n.) The quality or state of being plastic.
Deutoplastic :: Deutoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm..
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