Usually means: Materials engineered to have unnatural properties.
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  1. metamaterial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. metamaterial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Metamaterial, metamaterial: Wordnik
  4. metamaterial: Wiktionary
  5. Metamaterial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (metamaterial)

noun:  (engineering, physics) Any material engineered to have a property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials; especially:
noun:  Any material that obtains its electromagnetic properties from its structure rather than from its chemical composition; especially a material engineered to have features of a size less than that of the wavelength of a class of electromagnetic radiation.

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