The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromαὐξητικός“growing, promoting growth, productive”
- English todayauxetic
From Ancient Greek αὐξητικός (auxētikós, “growing, promoting growth, productive”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
auxetic
Today it means: Having the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched. Full definition →
Ancient Greek αὐξητικός