ORIGAMI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does origami mean? 

• ORIGAMI (noun)
  The noun ORIGAMI has 1 sense:

1. the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)

  Familiarity information: ORIGAMI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIGAMI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("origami" is a kind of...):

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Domain region:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)

 Context examples 

To understand more about the mechanisms that create the saddle shapes, the researchers created a theoretical model that could predict the behavior of the origami.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

Bistability refers to the origami pattern's ability to find a resting equilibrium in two different states.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

The origami pattern "has structural bistability that could be harnessed for metamaterials used in energy trapping or other microelectronic devices."

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

Research examined whether the popular origami pattern that resembles the geometric hyperbolic paraboloid — or hypar — had the same physical characteristics as its geometric counterpart.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

The hypar origami form, with its sweeping opposing arcs and saddle shape, has long been popular with artists working in the paper-folding tradition.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)