smectic

smectic
/smek"tik/, adj. Physical Chem. (of liquid crystals)
noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is in layers or planes. Cf. nematic.
[1665-75 for earlier sense "cleansing"; < L smecticus < Gk smektikós, equiv. to smekt(ós) smeared, verbid of sméchein to wash out, clean + -tikos -TIC]

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