Definition of plastic

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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..

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Organoleptic :: Organoleptic (a.) Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole..
Anaplastic :: Anaplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to anaplasty.
Plasticity :: Plasticity (n.) Plastic force.
Galvanoplastic :: Galvanoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like..
Cosmoplastic :: Cosmoplastic (a.) Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
Fictor :: Fictor (n.) An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
Ectoplastic :: Ectoplastic (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm..
Haemoplastic :: Haemoplastic (a.) Same as Haematoplastic.
Phelloplastics :: Phelloplastics (n.) Art of modeling in cork.
Plasticity :: Plasticity (n.) The quality or state of being plastic.
Emplastic :: Emplastic (n.) A medicine causing constipation.
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..
Autoplastic :: Autoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
Osteoplastic :: Osteoplastic (a.) Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells..
#NAME? :: -plastic () A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic..
Modeling :: Modeling (n.) The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form..
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..
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.
Fibrinoplastic :: Fibrinoplastic (a.) Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
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