screw axis


nounCrystallography.
  1. a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.

Origin of screw axis

1
First recorded in 1900–05

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