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English
Etymology
From auxetic + -ity.
Noun
auxeticity (uncountable)
- (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:The engineered class of anti-tetrachiral cellular materials is phenomenologically characterized by a strong auxeticity of the elastic macroscopic response.
- (pathology) The quality of being auxetic (relating to auxesis).
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