UNIT CELL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("unit cell" is a kind of...):

building block; unit (a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else)

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