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Noematic vs Nematic - What's the difference?

noematic | nematic |

As adjectives the difference between noematic and nematic

is that noematic is of or relating to the understanding while nematic is whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.

As a noun nematic is

a liquid crystal whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.

noematic

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of or relating to the understanding.
  • * 1996 Seisaku Yamamoto and Robert E. Carter, Translation of 's Rinrigaku :
    • Words are the furnace by means of which merely subjective connections made by individual human beings are converted into noematic meanings.
    (Cudworth)

    Related terms

    * (Webster 1913)

    nematic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (physics, chemistry, of certain liquid crystals) Whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.

    • Derived terms

    * nematic phase

    See also

    * cholesteric * smectic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A liquid crystal whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.
  • * 1984 , L D Landau, L. P. Pitaevskii, A. M. Kosevich, E.M. Lifshitz, Theory of Elasticity , Volume 7, page 147,
    • It is easy to see, however, that the same coefficients in nematics determine the adiabatic deformations also.
  • * 1988 , Masao Doi, The Theory of Polymer Dynamics , page 368,
    • For low-molecular-weight nematics', it has been known that the constitutive equation of ' nematics is entirely different from that for isotropic liquids.
  • * 1996 , Lev M. Blinov, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Electrooptic Effects in Liquid Crystal Materials , page 274,
    • Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in nematics could be classified according to the dependence of the threshold voltage (or field) on the physical parameters of the liquid crystal, cell geometry, field frequency, etc.