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smecticity en · NOUN

Etymology

From smectic + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being smectic.
    • This state could capture a number of important experimental features in the pseudogap, for example, the predominant d-wave CDW with spatial dependent charge smecticity, the unusual ARPES quasiparticle spectrum, and the time reversal symmetry breaking order in polarized neutron diffraction and polar Kerr rotation. 2015, Cheung Chan, “Interplay of pair density waves and random field disorders in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors”, in arXiv: