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plasticity http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plasticity 1- the capability of being molded, receiving shape, or being made to assume a desired form: the plasticity of social institutions; the great plasticity of clay. 2- Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling: the plastic art of sculpture. 3- Having the qualities of sculpture; well-formed: "the astonishing plastic beauty of the chorus girls" (Frank Harris). 4- Giving form or shape to a substance: the plastic forces that create and wear down a mountain range. 5- Easily influenced; impressionable. 6- Biology Capable of building tissue; formative. 7- the capacity for continuous alteration of the neural circuits and synapses of the living brain and nervous system in response to experience or injury that involves the formation of new circuits andsynapses and the elimination or modification of existing ones. 8- the ability to retain a shape attained by pressure deformation. 9- the capacity of organisms with the same genotype to vary in developmental pattern, in phenotype, or in behavior according to varying environmental conditions. . . 2:28 PM
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