different between noematic vs nematic

English

Alternative forms

• noematical

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (no?matikós, “rational, of or related to thought”). See noetic.

Adjective

noematic (comparative more noematic, superlative most noematic)

1. (obsolete) Of or relating to the understanding.
   • 1996 Seisaku Yamamoto and Robert E. Carter, Translation of Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku:

     Words are the furnace by means of which merely subjective connections made by individual human beings are converted into noematic meanings.

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Related terms

• noema

Anagrams

• Maconite, actinome, came into, coinmate

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (n?matos), genitive of ???? (nêma, “thread”).

Adjective

nematic (comparative more nematic, superlative most nematic)

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

Derived terms

• nematic phase

Translations

See also

• cholesteric
• smectic

Noun

nematic (plural nematics)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• -metacin, emicant