Definition of lattice. Meaning of lattice. Synonyms of lattice

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Definition of lattice

Lattice
Lattice Lat"tice, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Latticed; p. pr. & vb. n. Latticing.] 1. To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers. 2. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window. To lattice up, to cover or inclose with a lattice. Therein it seemeth he [Alexander] hath latticed up C[ae]sar. --Sir T. North.
Lattice
Lattice Lat"tice, n. [OE. latis, F. lattis lathwork, fr. latte lath. See Latten, 1st Lath.] 1. Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. --Judg. v. 28. 2. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal. Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses. Lattice girder (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework. Lattice plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar (Ouvirandra fenestralis), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is O. Berneriana. The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors.

Meaning of lattice from wikipedia

- Look up lattice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lattice may refer to: Latticework, an ornamental criss-crossed framework, an arrangement of crossing...
- A lattice is an abstract structure studied in the mathematical subdisciplines of order theory and abstract algebra. It consists of a partially ordered...
- Bravais lattice. The lengths of the prin****l axes, or edges, of the unit cell and the angles between them are the lattice constants, also called lattice parameters...
- hexagonal lattice (sometimes called triangular lattice) is one of the five two-dimensional Bravais lattice types. The symmetry category of the lattice is wallpaper...
- In physics, the reciprocal lattice emerges from the Fourier transform of another lattice. The direct lattice or real lattice is a periodic function in...
- A lattice system is a set of Bravais lattices. Space groups are classified into crystal systems according to their point groups, and into lattice systems...
- In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice, named after Auguste BravaisĀ (1850), is an infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of...
- coordinate-wise addition or subtraction of two points in the lattice produces another lattice point, that the lattice points are all separated by some minimum distance...
- In computer science, lattice problems are a class of optimization problems related to mathematical objects called lattices. The conjectured intractability...
- trigonal) and two lattice systems (hexagonal and rhombohedral). While commonly confused, the trigonal crystal system and the rhombohedral lattice system are...