auxetic

adj
/ɔːkˈsɛtɪk/UK/ɔkˈsɛtɪk/US/ɑkˈsɛtɪk/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αὐξητικός (auxētikós, “growing, promoting growth, productive”).

  1. derived from αὐξητικός

Definitions

  1. Having the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched.

  2. Relating to auxesis

  3. An auxetic material.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for auxetic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA