Usually means: Layered liquid crystal phase structure.
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  1. smectic: Merriam-Webster
  2. smectic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smectic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smectic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smectic: Wiktionary
  6. smectic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. smectic: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. smectic: Dictionary.com
  9. Smectic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. smectic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. smectic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smectic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smectic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Smectic: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (smectic)

adjective:  (rare) Cleansing.
adjective:  (rare) Astringent; detergent.
adjective:  (chemistry, physics, of a liquid crystal) Whose molecules are aligned in layers, with the molecules lying perpendicular to the plane of the layers.
noun:  A liquid crystal having the molecules aligned in this way; a phase of a liquid crystal in which the molecules are so aligned.

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