Meaning of “ductile” in the English Dictionary

Examples from literature

• For boiler and ship plates, the mildest and most ductile steel is favored. 
• Not many of us have ever seen iron, the pure metal, soft, ductile and white like silver. 
• Nothing is so ductile and elastic. 
• Their owner has learned to handle a ductile metal, to draw it from the rocks and fuse it in the fire. 
• When the metal plates are very soft and ductile, the operation of punching does no appreciable injury.