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Bravais lattice
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English
Etymology
Named after Auguste Bravais (1811–1863), a French crystallographer.
Pronunciation
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Noun
en geometry crystallography An infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of discrete translation operations , where ni are any integers and ai are known as the primitive vectors which lie in different directions and span the lattice.
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