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English[edit]


Alternative forms[edit]
- lettice (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English latis, from Middle French lattis (“lathing”), from Old French lattis, from latte (“a lath”), from Frankish *latta (“a lath”), from Proto-Germanic *lattǭ, *lattō, *laþþō (“board; plank; ledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)latn-, *(s)lat- (“beam; log”). Cognate with Old High German latta (“lath”), (German Latte), Old English lætt (“lath”), Middle Low German lāde (“plank, counter, sales counter”), German Laden (“shop”). More at lath.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lattice (plural lattices)
- A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 7:
- It was now in ruin: the deer had climbed the broken palings, and reposed among the flowers; grass grew on the threshold, and the swinging lattice creaking to the wind, gave signal of utter desertion.
- (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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material): latticework
Hypernyms[edit]
- (order theory) partially ordered set
Hyponyms[edit]
- (group theory): cubic lattice, integer lattice, square lattice (n=2)
- (order theory) complete lattice, distributive lattice
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material
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regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points
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partially ordered set
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Verb[edit]
lattice (third-person singular simple present lattices, present participle latticing, simple past and past participle latticed)
- To make a lattice of.
- to lattice timbers
- To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
- to lattice a window
References[edit]
- lattice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- lattice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Further reading[edit]
Latticework on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lattice (order) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lattice (group) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lattice (discrete subgroup) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lattice (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Primitive cell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lattices on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of latice influenced by latte (“milk”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lattice m (plural lattici)
Further reading[edit]
lattice on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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