metastructure
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]metastructure (plural metastructures)
- A structure that describes another structure.
- 1999, Sherryll S. Mleynek, Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction:
- Within any novel, even the most dramatically postmodern ones, there is a metastructure of epistemological assumptions that define the narrative values of the text […]
- (physics) A structure that has one or several properties similar to those of metamaterials
- 2012 Christos Argyropoulos et al, "Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces" arXiv
- We discuss the possibility of realizing utlrabroadband[sic] omnidirectional absorbers and angularly selective coherent thermal emitters based on properly patterned plasmonic metastructures.
- 2012 Christos Argyropoulos et al, "Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces" arXiv