Bravais lattice
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an infinite array of discrete points in three dimensional space generated by a set of discrete translation operations
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- method
- Named after
- Auguste Bravais
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- different from
- crystallographic lattice
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- Bravais lattices
- discoverer or inventor
- Auguste Bravais
- time of discovery or invention
- 1848-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The seven lattice systems and their Bravais lattices in three dimensions
In geometry and crystallography, a Bravais lattice, named after Auguste Bravais (1850), is an infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of discrete translation operations described in three dimensional space by
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