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hexachiral

hexachiral adjective: hexagonal and chiral.

Adjective

hexachiral (not comparable)

  1. hexagonal and chiral
    • A parametric beam lattice model is formulated to analyse the propagation properties of elastic in-plane waves in an auxetic material based on a hexachiral topology of the periodic cell, equipped with inertial local resonators.2015, Andrea Bacigalupo, Marco Lepidi, Giorgio Gnecco, Luigi Gambarotta, “Optimal design of auxetic hexachiral metamaterials with local resonators”, in arXiv

Origin of hexachiral

From hexa- + chiral.

Questions about hexachiral

What does hexachiral mean?
Hexachiral means hexagonal and chiral.
What part of speech is hexachiral?
Hexachiral is an adjective.

Words near hexachiral in the dictionary

  1. hexacelsian
  2. hexacene
  3. hexacenes
  4. hexacetonide
  5. hexacetonides
  6. hexachiral
  7. hexachitose
  8. hexachlorethane
  9. hexachloride
  10. hexachlorides
  11. hexachloridoantimonate

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