lattice en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈlæt.ɪs/ (UK, US)
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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.
Meanings
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A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
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], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC: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.
1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
- A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
- A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
- A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
- 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. ▸ A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and which spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
- (qualifier:Lie theory; generalizing noun sense 5.1; Lie theory; generalizing noun sense 5.1) 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. ▸ A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
- (qualifier:ring theory; generalizing noun sense 5.1; ring theory; generalizing noun sense 5.1, with respect to a vector space V over a field F which is the field of fractions of an integral domain R in F) 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. ▸ A finitely generated R-submodule of V which spans V over F. (In this case the submodule is called an R-lattice).
- A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lettice | alternative | lexicographic | |
| lattices | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
optical lattice · Bravais lattice · bilattice · bounded lattice · crystal lattice · lattice window · lattice leaf · lattice theory · spin-lattice relaxation time · antilattice · hyperlattice · complete lattice · microlattice · Leech lattice · Toda lattice · lattice bridge · superlattice · nonlattice · space lattice · lattice model · nanolattice · latticelike · skew lattice · Tamari lattice · Abrikosov lattice · lattice Boltzmann method · distributive lattice · semilattice · lattice parameter · interlattice · Boolean lattice · lattice constant · Niemeier lattice · lattice energy · lattice point · quasilattice · sublattice · lattice-work · latticewise · reciprocal lattice · lattice plant · lattice girder · Bethe lattice
Descendants
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
integer lattice · cubic lattice · square lattice · complete lattice · distributive lattice
Relateds
Synonyms
latticework (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material)
Translations (99)
fi säleikkö (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · bg решетка (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · es trama (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · it reticolo (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · pt gelosia (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · es celosía (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · la cancellī (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · he סבכה (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · ro latice (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · de Kristallgitter (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · it traliccio (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · ru решётка (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · it reticolo (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · ja 結晶格子 (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · ja 束 (partially ordered set) · he סריג (partially ordered set) · ja ラティス (partially ordered set) · pt treliça (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · ja 格子 (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · mk ре́шетка (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · bg решетка (partially ordered set) · is grind (partially ordered set) · es retículo (partially ordered set) · it grata (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · he סריג (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · nl kristalrooster (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · fr réseau (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · tl sala-sala (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · mk решетка (partially ordered set) · fi hila (partially ordered set) · it griglia (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · cs mřížka (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · cmn 晶格 (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · de Gitter (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · el πλέγμα (partially ordered set) · fi ristikko (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · gd cliath (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · pl kratka (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · de Verband (partially ordered set) · el πλέγμα (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · pl krata (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · ja ラティス (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · ca gelosia (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · de Gitterzaun (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · es retícula (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · hu apácarács (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · fi hila (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · nl raster (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · fr grille (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · gl latiza (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · nl latwerk (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · hu lécezet (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · it graticcio (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · lad bagdadi (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · la clāthrī (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · ru плетёная решётка (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · hu rácsozat (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · de Gatter (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · es entramado (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · fr quadrillage (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · de Gitter (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · it traliccio (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · nl rooster (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · pt trama (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · fr treillis (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · de Lattengerüst (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · it graticcio (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · pt rótula (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · es red cristalina (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · ca quadrícula (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · gl encanivelado (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · bg решетка (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · pt reticulado (partially ordered set) · pl krata (partially ordered set) · ro rețea (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · cmn 格 (partially ordered set) · pt grade (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · ko 결정격자 (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · it reticolo (partially ordered set) · cs svaz (partially ordered set) · et võre (partially ordered set) · gl xeloxía (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · es cuadrícula (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · hu háló (partially ordered set) · de Gitterwerk (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · nl tralie (partially ordered set) · hu ablakrács (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · fr lattis (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · hu rostély (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · he רשת (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · hu rács (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · pl krata (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · el καφασωτό (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · el καφάσι (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · ru решётка (partially ordered set) · hu rács (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · it griglia (regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points) · es enrejado (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material) · mk решетка (flat panel constructed with strips of wood or other material)