primitive cell

noun

, Crystallography.

1. a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.

Word History and Origins

Origin of primitive cell¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

In the act of cell-division the nuclei of the resulting cells are formed from the nucleus of the primitive cell.

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The unnucleated plastid might be called primitive cell (protocytos), and the ordinary nucleated one the nuclear cell (caryocytos).

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It is the life-basis, the primitive cell of the aggregate of cities and bodies politic.

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The mere process by which a primitive cell divides and reproduces itself has an air of demonic intelligence about it.

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Germ, as in blastoderm, the primitive cell layer in the beginning embryo, consisting of three layers.

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