space group

noun Crystallography.

a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.

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space cadet, space capsule, space carrier, space character, space charge, space group, space heater, space heating, space invaders, space inversion, space junk
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