metamaterial

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English

Etymology

meta- +‎ material

Noun

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metamaterial (plural metamaterials)

  1. (engineering, physics) 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