crystal lattice

American  

noun

1. lattice.

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crystal lattice British  

noun

1. the regular array of points about which the atoms, ions, or molecules composing a crystal are centred

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Etymology

Origin of crystal lattice

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Electrolytes are built from atoms arranged in a crystal lattice.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

"Rather than ion implantation, molecular beam epitaxy was used to precisely incorporate gallium atoms into the germanium's crystal lattice," says Julian Steele, a physicist at the University of Queensland and a co-author of the study.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025

One is quantum memory, which can store the exact state of a photon—including its phase information—in the quantum state of an atom in a crystal lattice.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 19, 2024

"But here, we detected the diffuse scattering arising from disorder in the atomic arrangement which is sensitive to fluctuations, in other words noise, of the crystal lattice."

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

Now in crystallography there are only thirty-two possible classes of crystal lattice construction.

From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver