ALL meanings of metamaterial
- noun metamaterial (engineering, physics) any material that obtains its electromagnetic properties from its structure rather than from its chemical composition; especially a material engineered to have features of a size less than that of the wavelength of a class of electromagnetic radiation. 1
- noun metamaterial any artificial material created from microscopic arrangements of existing elements in a structure which gives the material unconventional properties, esp when used for cloaking light or sound waves 0