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auxeticity

auxeticity noun: the quality of being auxetic (expanding when stretched).

Noun

auxeticity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being auxetic (expanding when stretched).
    • The engineered class of anti-tetrachiral cellular materials is phenomenologically characterized by a strong auxeticity of the elastic macroscopic response.2015, Andrea Bacigalupo, Marco Lepidi, “High-frequency parametric approximation of the Floquet-Bloch spectrum for anti-tetrachiral materials”, in arXiv
  2. The quality of being auxetic (relating to auxesis).

Origin of auxeticity

From auxetic + -ity.

Questions about auxeticity

What does auxeticity mean?
Auxeticity means the quality of being auxetic (expanding when stretched).
What part of speech is auxeticity?
Auxeticity is a noun.

Words near auxeticity in the dictionary

  1. auxes
  2. auxeses
  3. auxesis
  4. auxetic
  5. auxetically
  6. auxeticity
  7. auxetics
  8. auxetometer
  9. auxetometers
  10. auxetophone
  11. auxetophones

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