LATTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lattice mean? 

• LATTICE (noun)
  The noun LATTICE has 3 senses:

1. an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions

2. small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted

3. framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal

  Familiarity information: LATTICE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lattice" is a kind of...):

arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lattice"):

Bravais lattice; crystal lattice; space lattice (a 3-dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grille; lattice; wicket

Hypernyms ("lattice" is a kind of...):

opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)

Meronyms (parts of "lattice"):

stump ((cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fretwork; lattice; latticework

Hypernyms ("lattice" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Meronyms (parts of "lattice"):

lath (a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lattice"):

treillage; trellis (latticework used to support climbing plants)

 Context examples 

When placed in a magnetic field, gadoversetamide decreases T1 (spin-lattice or longitudinal relaxation time) and T2 (spin-spin or transverse relaxation time) values in tissues where it accumulates.

(Gadoversetamide, NCI Thesaurus)

Then she flung it through the open lattice, and we heard the crash of it on the path outside.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A type of immunoassay in which the antigen of interest found in a biological specimen competes with a lattice of antigen-antibody complexes.

(Kinetic Microparticle Immunoassay, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of enveloped, spherical shaped viruses with surface glycoproteins that are arranged in a T=12 icosahedral symmetrical lattice, in the family Bunyaviridae.

(Phlebovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A naturally produced angular solid of definite form in which the ultimate units from which it is built up are systematically arranged; they are usually evenly spaced on a regular space lattice.

(Crystal Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A solid that consists of naturally produced angular solids composed of singular, repeating units that are systematically arranged in an evenly spaced lattice.

(Crystal Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

No need to cower behind a gate-post, indeed!—to peep up at chamber lattices, fearing life was astir behind them!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Graphene — a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a lattice — is the strongest material in the world and so thin that it is flexible, the researchers said.

(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)

That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire lattices that defended them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The key place to carry out such a transfer would be flaws within the diamond, locations where elements other than carbon are trapped in the diamond's carbon lattice.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)