lattices
noun
Meaning
- A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
- A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
- A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
- A discrete subgroup of Rn which is isomorphic to Zn (considered as an additive group) and spans the real vector space Rn.
- A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
- (Lie theory) A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
- To make a lattice of.
- To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
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