Definition of Auxetics

1. auxetic [n] - See also: auxetic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auxetics

autunites
aux
auxano-
auxanogram
auxanograms
auxanographic
auxanographic method
auxanography
auxanology
auxanometer
auxanometers
auxeses
auxesis
auxetic
auxetic growth
auxetics (current term)
auxetophone
auxetophones
auxiliar
auxiliaries
auxiliarily
auxiliarly
auxiliars
auxiliary
auxiliary-verb
auxiliary abutment
auxiliary airfield
auxiliary bishop
auxiliary bishops
auxiliary boiler

Literary usage of Auxetics

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)
"Stated shortly, they consist in placing the cells to be watched on a jelly under the microscope—the jelly containing the auxetics; ..."

2. Coal Tar Distillation and Working Up of Tar Products by Arthur Robert Warnes (1918)
"The auxetics appear to be bodies akin to the amido acids or their derivatives and the amines, and the kinetics substances of the ptomaine class, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"After reviewing the importance of these various types of semi-experimental cancer he applies his theory of auxetics advanced in 1911. ..."

4. The Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World by Frederick Ludwig Hoffman (1916)
"... on the mucous membrane, and it is with a view to finding out whether these fumes contain auxetics and kinetics that this research has been undertaken. ..."

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