lattice
IPA: ɫˈætʌs
noun
- A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
- (heraldry) A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
- (crystallography) A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
- (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
- (music) A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
- (topology, Lie theory) A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
- (algebra, order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
verb
- To make a lattice of.
- To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
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Examples of "lattice" in Sentences
- The man has a frame that is a lattice.
- The effects of the lattice are essential.
- The site may also be a lattice interstice.
- Give the basis vectors of the real lattice.
- The windows upstairs are generally latticed.
- Normally the top side of the pastry is latticed.
- The interstices are deeply latticed and corrugated.
- The front of the houses are covered with latticed screens.
- It follows that the dual of the dual lattice is the original lattice.
- The simple cubic lattice is the only primitive unit cell conventionally.
- In mathematics, a lattice is a multidimensional structure that extends infinitely in any direction.
- Clear leaves dot the flowers while daffodil crystals twine like flowery serpents through the black satin lattice framework.
- The lattice is His love and His word the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the framework - and the vines are my identity in Christ.
- And no, we can't just let the system settle into its lowest-energy state and see what results; their proof only works if the lattice is infinitely large.
- My ophthalmologist said that I had a common condition called lattice thinning, likely in part hereditary, which would make me more susceptible to a retinal tear.
- Two face-centred cubic lattices can also interpenetrate in such a way that every point belonging to the one lattice is at the centre of gravity of a tetrahedron whose vertices are points belonging to the other lattice.
- There was no mistaking it, it was a "lattice" -- a real one, with old bluish panes set in sturdy black moldings, not the stage variety made of plate glass and papier-mache that he had seen in the sham cottage of aesthetic suburbs at home.
- It seems that heat is propagated not by the movement of energetic electrons—in solids of ionic- or covalent-bonded compounds, the electrons are not free to move—but by the vibration of individual molecules or a portion of the lattice, which is transferred to neighboring areas.
- But a new paradigm is taking over, one that looks less like a ladder and more like a "lattice" -- a shape that allows for stepping off and stepping back on, caretaking for children and aging parents, working non-traditional hours, taking detours into various fields, developing various skills etc.