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Megastructure vs Metastructure - What's the difference?

megastructure | metastructure |

As nouns the difference between megastructure and metastructure

is that megastructure is a very large structure while metastructure is (physics) a structure based upon metamaterials.

megastructure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very large structure.

    • metastructure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A structure based upon metamaterials
  • *2012 Christos Argyropoulos et al, "Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces" arXiv
  • *:We discuss the possibility of realizing utlrabroadband omnidirectional absorbers and angularly selective coherent thermal emitters based on properly patterned plasmonic metastructures .