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Adjective
/ˈbritl/,
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Hard but liable to break or shatter easily,
  1. Hard but liable to break or shatter easily
    • - her bones became fragile and brittle
  2. (of a sound, esp. a person's voice) Unpleasantly hard and sharp and showing signs of instability or nervousness
    • - a brittle laugh
  3. (of a person or behavior) Appearing aggressive or hard but unstable or nervous within
    • - her manner was artificially bright and brittle
Noun
  1. A candy made from nuts and set melted sugar
    • - peanut brittle
  1. caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
  2. having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
  3. lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"
  4. (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
  5. (brittleness) firm but easily broken
  6. A material is brittle if it is liable to fracture when subjected to stress. That is, it has little tendency to deform (or strain) before fracture. This fracture absorbs relatively little energy, even in materials of high strength, and usually makes a snapping sound.
  7. Brittles are confections, usually very hard and brittle, which consist of flat broken pieces of hard sugar candy embedded with nuts such as pecans and almonds, as well as legumes such as peanuts.
  8. The term software brittleness refers to the increased difficulty in fixing older software that may appear reliable, but fails badly when presented with unusual data or altered in a seemingly minor way. The term is derived from analogies to metalworking.
  9. A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts; Inflexible, may break or snap easily under stress or pressure; Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending; Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked; Emotionally fragile, ...
  10. (brittleness) The property by virtue of which a material is fractured without appreciable deformation by the application of load; The state of being brittle; aptness to break; fragility
  11. (Brittleness) The tendency of a metal or material to fracture without undergoing appreciable plastic deformation.
  12. (Brittleness) Tendency to crack when deformed.
  13. (Brittleness) That property of paper which causes it to break or fail when deformed such as by binding, converting, finishing, folding and handling. Factors, which contribute to brittleness, are composition, moisture, drying and aging.
  14. (BRITTLENESS) A severe condition of paper deterioration where paper loses its flexibility and thus chips and/or flakes easily.
  15. (BRITTLENESS) A condition of the finish that causes it to flake-off or crack when it is scratched.
  16. (Brittleness) Lack of resistance to cracking or breaking of a coating when bent or flexed.
  17. (Brittleness) Paper that has deteriorated to a point that it may fall apart or crumble to the touch.
  18. (Brittleness) The properties that determine how likely something is to break under force.
  19. (Brittleness) The quality of metal that describes its likliness for the crystals to become detached, becoming a crack. Metal is said to be 'brittle' if it is likely to crack--this can be reduced by annealing the metal, allowing the crystals to realign. ...
  20. A brittle structure or material exhibits low ductility, meaning that it exhibits very little inelastic deformation before complete failure.
  21. That property of a material that causes it to break or crack when depressed by bending. In paper, evidence of deterioration usually is exhibited by the paper's inability to withstand one or two (different standards are used) double corner folds. ...
  22. Adjective meaning fragile, hard and likely to break
  23. adjective applied to minerals and rocks that rupture easily.
  24. Describes a material with the tendency to fracture (break) without much stretching.
  25. A weak mid and bass presence with a flavor to the higher frequencies, not necessarily bright and harsh, but the tone lacks “Balls” (see Balls above)….