lattice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
chemistry
crystallography
entertainment
government
group-theory
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
monarchy
music
natural-sciences
nobility
order-theory
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
topology
Etymology: From Middle English latis, from Middle French lattis (“lathing”), from Old French lattis, from latte (“a lath”), from Frankish *lattu (“a lath”), from Proto-Germanic *laþô (“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.
Inflected forms:
form: lattices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lettice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lattices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: latticing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: latticed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: latticed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lettice
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
As we descended the long wooden stairway that leads from the central tower to the Island of Inchgarvie, the straight and simple outlines of the internal viaduct stood out in sharp contrast to the long sweep of the massive tubular arms of the cantilevers, and the complicated network of the lattice cross girders.
gloss: A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
pos: noun
gloss: A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
pos: noun
gloss: A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
pos: noun
gloss: In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in.
pos: noun
gloss: In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in.
pos: noun
gloss: In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in.
pos: noun
gloss: A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a lattice of.
pos: verb
examples: to lattice timbers
gloss: To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
pos: verb
examples: to lattice a window
Related words: grid
Derived words: Abrikosov lattice
antilattice
Bethe lattice
bilattice
Boolean lattice
bounded lattice
Bravais lattice
complete lattice
crystal lattice
distributive lattice
hyperlattice
interlattice
lattice Boltzmann method
lattice bridge
lattice constant
lattice energy
lattice girder
lattice leaf
latticelike
lattice model
lattice parameter
lattice plant
lattice point
lattice theory
lattice window
latticewise
lattice-work
Leech lattice
microlattice
nanolattice
Niemeier lattice
nonlattice
optical lattice
quasilattice
reciprocal lattice
semilattice
skew lattice
space lattice
spin-lattice relaxation time
sublattice
superlattice
Tamari lattice
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