lattice

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lattice

A wooden lattice

Lattice (algebra)

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.

PronunciationEdit

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæt.ɪs/
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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 [a park]was now in ruinː 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.
(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.

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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

Czech: mřížka f
Dutch: raster (nl) n
Finnish: säleikkö, ristikko (fi)
French: treillis (fr)
German: Gitterzaun m, Gitterwerk n, Gitter (de) n, Gatter (de) n, Lattengerüst (de) n
Greek: καφάσι (el) n (kafási)
Italian: grata (it) f, graticcio (it) m, cannicciata f

Japanese: 格子 (kōshi)
Portuguese: gelosia (pt) f, rótula (pt) f, treliça (pt) f
Russian: плетёная (ru) (pletjónaja) решётка (ru) f (rešótka)
Scottish Gaelic: cliath f
Spanish: celosía (es) f
Tagalog: sala-sala

a regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points

Chinese:
Mandarin: 晶格 (zh) (jīnggé)
Dutch: rooster (nl), kristalrooster
Finnish: hila (fi)
French: quadrillage (fr), grille (fr), lattis (fr)
German: Kristallgitter (de) n, Gitter (de) n
Hungarian: rács (hu)
Italian: graticcio (it) m, traliccio (it) m, reticolo (it) m, griglia (it) f

Japanese: 結晶格子 (kesshōkōshi)
Korean: 결정격자 (gyeoljeonggyeokja)
Macedonian: ре́шетка f (réšetka)
Portuguese: trama (pt) f, grade (pt) f
Romanian: rețea (ro), latice
Russian: решётка (ru) f (rešótka)
Spanish: trama (es), cuadrícula (es)

partially ordered set in algebra

Chinese:
Mandarin: 格 (zh) (gé)
Czech: svaz (cs) m
Dutch: tralie (nl)
Estonian: võre
German: Verband (de) m
Hungarian: háló (hu)

Icelandic: grind (is) f
Italian: reticolo (it) m
Japanese: 束 (ja) (そく, soku)
Macedonian: решетка f (réšetka)
Polish: krata (pl) f
Portuguese: reticulado m
Russian: решётка (ru) f (rešótka)

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