Auxetic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to auxesis; amplifying; increasing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Containing the property of counter-intuitively expanding when being stretched.
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  • adjective. of or relating to growth by auxesis
  • Word Usage
    "Patents have already been granted to the team led by Professor Elias Siores at Bolton University, where auxetic materials were pioneered by another group led by Dr Kim Alderson."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning