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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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.
Archeus :: Archeus (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
Clay :: Clay (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities..
Protoplastic :: Protoplastic (a.) First-formed.
Organoplastic :: Organoplastic (a.) Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells..
Uranoplasty :: Uranoplasty (n.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
Imagination :: Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
Ceroplastic :: Ceroplastic (a.) Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure..
Emplastic :: Emplastic (a.) Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications..
Fibrinoplastic :: Fibrinoplastic (a.) Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
Heteroplastic :: Heteroplastic (a.) Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone..
Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another..
Proplastics :: Proplastics (n.) The art of making molds for castings.
Plastic :: Plastic (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts..
Sculpture :: Sculpture (n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials..
Antiplastic :: Antiplastic (a.) Diminishing plasticity.
Hyperplastic :: Hyperplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.
Plasticity :: Plasticity (n.) The quality or state of being plastic.
Flexile :: Flexile (a.) Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.
Haemoplastic :: Haemoplastic (a.) Same as Haematoplastic.
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