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Metamaterial vs Metaatom - What's the difference?

metamaterial | metaatom |

As nouns the difference between metamaterial and metaatom

is that metamaterial is 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 while metaatom is the unit cell of a metamaterial.

metamaterial

English

Noun

(wikipedia metamaterial) (en noun)
  • (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
    • Metamaterials

    metaatom

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The unit cell of a metamaterial.