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point group

American

noun

Crystallography.

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.

point group British

noun

crystallog another term for crystal class

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Etymology

Origin of point group

First recorded in 1900–05

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