auxeticity

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auxetic +‎ -ity

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auxeticity (uncountable)

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

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