Associations to the word «Auxetic»

Wiktionary

AUXETIC, adjective. (chemistry) Containing the property of counter-intuitively expanding when being stretched.
AUXETIC, noun. An auxetic material.

Dictionary definition

AUXETIC, adjective. Of or relating to growth by auxesis.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne