lattice

  1. Noun.  A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
  2. Noun.  (crystallography) a regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
  3. Noun.  (context, order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and an infimum.
  4. Noun.  (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rn which spans the real vector space Rn.

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