Definition of "auxetic" []

• Containing the property of counter-intuitively expanding when being stretched. (adjective)

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• "Already noted for its pioneering auxetic bandages, which remarkably grow thicker when you stretch them, the local university has now invented a cloth which produces its own power."
• "Patents have already been granted to the team led by Professor Elias Siores at Bolton University, where auxetic materials were pioneered by another group led by Dr Kim Alderson."
• "This video .mov format from Bolton University, UK, shows an auxetic foam in action."