auxeticity

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noun

The quality of being auxetic (expanding when stretched).

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Meanings

nounauxeticity (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryThe quality of being auxetic (expanding when stretched).

    The engineered class of anti-tetrachiral cellular materials is phenomenologically characterized by a strong auxeticity of the elastic macroscopic response.

    2015, Andrea Bacigalupo, Marco Lepidi, “High-frequency parametric approximation of the Floquet-Bloch spectrum for anti-tetrachiral materials”, in arXiv
  2. uncountablemedicineThe quality of being auxetic (relating to auxesis).

Origin

From auxetic + -ity.

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Translations

Polish auksetyczność
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APA

auxeticity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/auxeticity

MLA

“auxeticity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/auxeticity. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “auxeticity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/auxeticity.

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