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brittle

1. Descriptive of a material which fractures under low stress without appreciable deformation.

2. Descriptive of a paint film unable to withstand stretching or scratching without breaking or becoming otherwise deformed.

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brittle - Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropriately and disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli; e.g. a file system that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said to be brittle. This term is often used to describe the results of a research effort that were never intended to be robust, but it can be applied to commercially developed software, which displays the quality far more often than it ought to.

Opposite of robust.

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No references found			Lacking the strong metaphoric associations of bicycle-taxi drivers or New Year's dragons, or the absurdity of painting en plein eau, the evocation of national memory and historical flux becomes brittlely allegorical and the slow, underwater lyricism less hypnotic than merely dawdling. Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: Lehmann Maupin by Raymond, Jonathan / Artforum International 3) revealed that neat resin behaved brittlely under high strain rate, consistent with the behavior previously reported for polyamide 6 (18). Essential work of fracture of rubber-modified polyamide 6 in impact by Lievana, Emiliano; Bernal, Celina; Frontini, Patricia / Polymer Engineering and Science The small region of deformed spherulites elongates and cracks brittlely at strains on the order of 15% to 25%. Comparison of vibration and hot-tool thermoplastic weld morphologies by Stokes, Vijay K. / Polymer Engineering and Science			British thermal unit British Togoland British Trade Union Congress BTUC British West Africa British West Indies British, The Britomart Britomartis Briton Britske, Ergard Britske, Ergard Viktorovich Brittan, Sir Leon Brittany Brittany spaniel Britten Britten of Aldeburgh, Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Benjamin Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh brittle brittle fracture brittle mica brittle silver ore brittle star brittle temperature brittleheart brittlely Brittleness brittlestar Britton, John Britton, Nathaniel L. Britton, Nathaniel Lord Briukhanov, Nikolai Briukhanov, Nikolai Pavlovich Briukhonenko, Sergei Briukhonenko, Sergei Sergeevich Briukhovetskii, Ivan Briukhovetskii, Ivan Martynovich Briukhovichi Briullov School Briullov, Aleksandr Briullov, Aleksandr Pavlovich Briullov, Karl Briullov, Karl Pavlovich Briusov, Aleksandr Briusov, Aleksandr Iakovlevich Briusov, Valerii Briusov, Valerii Iakovlevich Brix degree Brix scale Brixen Brixham			Brittle failure Brittle failure brittle fern Brittle fracture Brittle fracture Brittle fracture Brittle fracture Brittle Fracture Pressure Limit Brittle Hair Syndrome brittle maidenhair brittle maidenhair fern brittle mica Brittle seastar Brittle seastar Brittle silver ore Brittle silver ore brittle star brittle star Brittle stars Brittle stars Brittle strength brittle temperature brittle willow brittle, friable Brittle-Ductile Transition brittle-star brittle-star Brittle-To-Ductile Transition Temperature brittlebush brittleheart brittlely brittleness brittleness brittleness brittleness brittler brittler brittler brittler brittles brittles brittles brittles brittlest brittlest brittlest brittlest Brittlestar Brittlestar brittlestars brittly brittly brittly brittly Britton, John Britton, Nathaniel L. Britton, Nathaniel Lord Brittonia Brittonic Brittonic Brittonrosea

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