screw axis
nounCrystallography.
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
1First recorded in 1900–05
Words Nearby screw axis
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