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What is a susceptibility?

What is a susceptibility? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
  2. emotional sensitivity
  3. (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
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The principal limitation on the use of lead as a structural material is not its low tensile strength but its susceptibility to creep.
In vitro drug susceptibility indicated resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampin.
The magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic material is inversely proportional to absolute temperature.
Reed briefly reviewed different methods for assessing susceptibility to extirpation for scoring conservation priorities.
To explore this possibility both the anisotropy of susceptibility and the anisotropy of magnetic remanence of the dykes were measured.
The scarring susceptibility is high for small, thin-barked trees and for trees that have been previously scarred.

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