lattice
lat·tice (lat′is)
noun
- an openwork structure of crossed strips or bars of wood, metal, etc. used as a screen, support, etc.
- something resembling or suggesting such a structure
- a door, gate, shutter, trellis, etc. formed of such a structure
- Physics
- a three-dimensional pattern of points in space, as of atoms or groups of atoms in a solid or crystal
- space lattice
- the arrangement in a geometric pattern of fissionable and nonfissionable material in a nuclear reactor
Etymology: ME latis < OFr lattis < latte < MHG < OHG latta: see lath
transitive verb -·ticed, -·tic·ing
- to arrange like a lattice; make a lattice of
- to furnish or cover with a lattice or latticework
lattice
n.
Preposition: of
- atom: In other words, the Pd atoms fit themselves into a lattice of Cu atoms by pushing their neighbors out a bit.
Converse of object
- generate: Combining the primitive lattice vectors with spacegroup symmetry will effectively generate the crystal lattice.
Adjective modifier
- reciprocal: The set of all K vectors defines the reciprocal lattice.
- cubic: For the simple cubic lattice, all values of n will give Bragg peaks.
- hexagonal: The closure or return constraints of the bundle result in an allowable group of automorphisms of the cross-sectional hexagonal lattice.
- ionic: Summary At room temperature, solid aluminum chloride has an ionic lattice with a lot of covalent character.
- two-dimensional: Figure 2 illustrates three different kinds of neighborhoods in a two-dimensional lattice.
- 2-d: Some examples which show the Brillouin Zones for common 2-D lattices may be found by clicking the links below.
Modifies a noun
- enthalpy: The first is the comparatively very high lattice enthalpy of the solid fluoride.
- footbridge: Lattice footbridge still in evidence, its length being somewhat unusual among the type.
- qcd: In the sections the testing jargon is explained in the context of testing a lattice QCD code.
- girder: The hinged lattice girders swung over the stern to form a continuation of the engine room overhead rails.
- spacing: Our B results cover a range in lattice spacings of more than a factor of two.
- mismatch: The size at which this happens is strongly dependent upon the cooling rate and lattice mismatch of the alloy.
Noun used with modifier
- subgroup: Therefore this example builds only a partial subgroup lattice.
- crystal: However, the dry solid still contains a significant quantity of solvent trapped in the crystal lattice.
- vortex: Thus there is no vortex lattice, indeed no vortices at all.
- diamond: Brown Plastic deformation of the diamond lattice whilst in the earth.
- spin: It can be solved analytically in terms of the statistical mechanics of spin lattices.
- iron: The iron lattice carriage bridge below the museum was erected in 1881.
He asked for water, and she brought him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
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