lattice
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
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NounEdit
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.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 7
- (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.
- (order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
- (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rn which spans the real vector space Rn.
SynonymsEdit
HypernymsEdit
- (algebra) partially ordered set
HyponymsEdit
- (algebra) complete lattice
- (algebra) distributive lattice
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TranslationsEdit
A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis
a regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points
partially ordered set in algebra
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VerbEdit
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
Further readingEdit
- lattice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- lattice in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Lattices on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons