Bravais lattice

[brav-ey, bruh-vey]

Bravais lattice

[brav-ey, bruh-vey]
noun
Crystallography. lattice (def. 4).

Origin:
named after Auguste Bravais (died 1863), French physicist
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Bravais lattice (ˈbræveɪ, brəˈveɪ)
 
n
crystallog any of 14 possible space lattices found in crystals
 
[named after Auguste Bravais, 19th-century French physicist]

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