lattice
/ˈlæt.ɪs/
lattice noun: a flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
Noun
lattice (plural lattices)
- 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...1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150
- Synonyms:
- latticework
- 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.
- A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and which spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
- A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
- 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.
Verb
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
lattice meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
lattice in Hindi
- lattice
- जाली jālī
- a lattice, screen
- झझरी jhajhrī
lattice in Tamil
- அடுக்கு, பின்னல், அணிக்கோவை, சாலக்கேடர், கூடமைப்பு, நெய்யரி
lattice in Urdu
- جافری, جالی
lattice in Bengali
- জালি, গরাদে, জাফরি
More languagesFewer languages
- lattice in Malayalam
- ജാലകം, കിളിവാതിൽ, വാതായനം, ജാലകത്തട്ടി
- lattice in Kannada
- ಕುತ್ತಟ್ಟ, ಹೊಗೆಯಟ್ಟ, ನೆರಕೆ, ನೇಯ್ಗೆ
- lattice in Punjabi
- ਜਾਲੀਬੰਦੀ, ਜਾਲੀ ਲਗਾਉਣਾ
- lattice in Sanskrit
- जालक jālaká, जाल jā́la
- lattice in Nepali
- लटिङ, लटिङ्
- lattice in Tagalog
- sala-sala
Examples of lattice in a sentence
- A Boolean lattice always has 2ⁿ elements for some cardinal number n.
- If two Boolean lattices have the same size, then they are isomorphic.
- In a distributive lattice, the set of complemented elements is a sublattice.
Synonyms of lattice
Forms of lattice
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lattices |
| alternative form | lettice |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lattices |
| present participle | latticing |
| past participle | latticed |
| past | latticed |
Origin of lattice
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.
Words formed from lattice
- Abrikosov lattice
- antilattice
- Bethe lattice
- bilattice
- Boolean lattice
- bounded lattice
- Bravais lattice
- complete lattice
- crystal lattice
- distributive lattice
- hyperlattice
- interlattice
- lattice Boltzmann method
- lattice bridge
- lattice constant
- lattice energy
- lattice girder
- lattice leaf
- latticelike
- lattice model
- lattice parameter
- lattice plant
- lattice point
- lattice theory
- lattice window
- latticewise
- lattice-work
- Leech lattice
- microlattice
- nanolattice
- Niemeier lattice
- nonlattice
- optical lattice
- quasilattice
- reciprocal lattice
- semilattice
- skew lattice
- space lattice
- spin-lattice relaxation time
- sublattice
- superlattice
- Tamari lattice
- Toda lattice
Phrases with lattice
Questions about lattice
- What does lattice mean?
- Lattice means a flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
- What is lattice in Hindi?
- Lattice in Hindi is जाली (jālī), झझरी (jhajhrī). See Lattice meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lattice?
- Lattice can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lattice?
- Lattice is pronounced /ˈlæt.ɪs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lattice?
- The plural of lattice is lattices.
Words near lattice in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lattice (page history and authors); जाली (Hindi) (page history and authors); lattice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lattice (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Lattice (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lattice (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lattice (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lattice (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); जाल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); lattice (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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