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unit cell
noun
- the simplest unit of a regular lattice.
unit cell
noun
- crystallog the smallest group of atoms, ions, or molecules that is characteristic of a particular crystal lattice
Word History and Origins
Origin of unit cell1
Example Sentences
Last week, a 34-year-old man was found unconscious in a medical unit cell at the jail, where he had been held since 2019.
Ventura said that corrections officers found the unidentified man unresponsive in a single unit cell Tuesday at John J. Moran Medium Security facility.
This halves the size of the Brillouin zone — a unit cell of the abstract ‘momentum space’ that is used to describe the properties of electrons in semiconductors.
The atomic or molecular order in a crystal is defined by the unit cell, which is the smallest repeating unit of the crystal structure.
These nanometre-scale potentials are caused by the layers having different orientations or lattice constants — parameters that describe the dimensions of a unit cell in a crystal lattice.
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