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unit cells

unit cells is the plural of unit cell.

Meaning of unit cell

Noun

unit cell (plural unit cells)

  1. The smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms within a crystal, from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred.
    • The first task for a crystallographer is to establish the shape of the unit cell.1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life

Questions about unit cells

What is unit cells the plural of?
Unit cells is the plural of unit cell.

Words near unit cells in the dictionary

  1. unisulcate
  2. unisus
  3. unisutural
  4. unit
  5. unit cell
  6. unit cells
  7. unit circle
  8. unit circles
  9. unit cost
  10. unit costs
  11. unit disk

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