Associations to the word «Nematic»

Wiktionary

NEMATIC, adjective. (physics) (chemistry) (of certain liquid crystals) Whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.
NEMATIC, noun. A liquid crystal whose molecules align in loose parallel lines.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope