lattices

Noun

lattice (plural lattices)

1. 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

   Synonyms:

   latticework

2. A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
3. A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
4. A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
5. A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and which spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
6. (Lie theory, generalizing noun sense 5.1) A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.

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