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point group

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noun Crystallography.
  1. a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
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Origin of point group

First recorded in 1900–05
Also called symmetry class.
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British Dictionary definitions for point group

point group

noun
  1. crystallog another term for crystal class
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