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metamaterials

metamaterials is the plural of metamaterial.

Meaning of metamaterial

Noun

metamaterial (plural metamaterials)

  1. Any material engineered to have a property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials; especially
    • This study paves the way for investigating complex contact-based dynamics of microgranular media, demonstrates a novel acoustic metamaterial, and yields a new approach to studying micro- to nanoscale contact mechanics in multiparticle networks..2015, Morgan Hiraiwa, Maroun Abi Ghanem, Samuel P. Wallen, Amey Khanolkar, Alexei A. Maznev, Nicholas Boechler, “Complex contact-based dynamics of microsphere monolayers revealed by resonant...
  2. Any material that obtains its electromagnetic properties from its structure rather than from its chemical composition; especially a material engineered to have features of a size less than that of the wavelength of a class of electromagnetic radiation.

Questions about metamaterials

What is metamaterials the plural of?
Metamaterials is the plural of metamaterial.

Words near metamaterials in the dictionary

  1. metamales
  2. metamarket
  3. metamarketing
  4. metamarkets
  5. metamaterial
  6. metamaterials
  7. metamathematical
  8. metamathematician
  9. metamathematicians
  10. metamathematics
  11. metamatic

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