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Definition of Auxetic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to growth by auxesis.
Definition of Auxetic
1. a. Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.
Definition of Auxetic
1. Adjective. (chemistry) Containing the property of counter-intuitively expanding when being stretched. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Auxetic
1. a substance that promotes auxesis [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auxetic
Literary usage of Auxetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Further Researches Into Induced Cell-reproduction and Cancer by Hugh Campbell Ross, John Westray Cropper (1913)
"It may here be mentioned that in no instance have we found an auxetic substance
to be a kinetic as well, and, vice versa, no kinetic ever seems to be an ..."
2. The Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World by Frederick Ludwig Hoffman (1916)
"... such as mineral oil or wax or any suitable substance which would be auxetic-free,
and which when mixed under the industrial conditions with a flux would ..."
3. Coal Tar Distillation and Working Up of Tar Products by Arthur Robert Warnes (1918)
"It appears that pitch cancer cannot be produced unless an auxetic and a ...
is one of the hurtful substances of the auxetic type, but it rests with the ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"By Alvin E. Siegel, MD A Study of Living Cells on Kinetic and auxetic Jellies.
By JA Roddy, MD, and WD Baun. EJ CRANE. A Text-Book of Medical Chemistry and ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"... xanthin, globin, or probably to some of the amido-acids. The auxetic action
of globin is shown in the successful treatment of chronic leg ulcers ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"The meristem region in both is entirely terminal, and some detailed studies of
the fate of the carbohydrates and of the non-auxetic variations in thickness ..."
7. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The constituents responsible for its "auxetic" action have not been identified;
but the anthracen fraction is the most active (Norris, ..."
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