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auxetic

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aux⋅et⋅ic

  [awg-zet-ik, awk-set-] Biology
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–adjective
1. pertaining to or promoting auxesis.
–noun
2. an auxetic agent.
Origin:
1730–40; < Gk auxētikos increasing, equiv. to auxēt(ós) increased (deriv. of aúxein; see auxesis ) + -ikos -ic
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aux·e·sis   (ôg-zē'sĭs, ôk-sē'-)   
n.  Growth resulting from increase in cell size without cell division.

[Greek auxēsis, growth, from auxanein, auxē-, to grow; see aug- in Indo-European roots.]
aux·et'ic (ôg-zět'ĭk) adj., aux·et'i·cal·ly adv.
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