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An engineered material whose arrangement of elements gives it properties not ordinarily obtained from its constituents alone.
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- optical metamaterial
- acoustic metamaterial
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The acoustic metamaterial redirected sound around the protected cavity.
The engineer warned that the metamaterial worked only within a narrow range.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular metamaterial; plural metamaterials. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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