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

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus