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noun
The smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms within a crystal, from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, crystallography, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: unit, building block
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