Lattice
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
"It was now in ruin: the deer had climbed the broken palings, and reposed among the flowers; grass grew on the threshold, and the swinging lattice creaking to the wind, gave signal of utter desertion."
- 2 framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal wordnet
- 3 A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
- 4 small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted wordnet
- 5 A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
Show 6 more definitions
- 6 an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions wordnet
- 7 A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
- 8 In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in.; A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and which spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
- 9 In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in.; A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
- 10 In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in.; A finitely generated R-submodule of V which spans V over F. (In this case the submodule is called an R-lattice).
- 11 A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
- 1 To make a lattice of.
"to lattice timbers"
- 2 To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
"to lattice a window"
Example
More examples"'Twas night; on earth all creatures were asleep, / when lo! the figures of our gods, the same / whom erst from falling Ilion o'er the deep / I brought, scarce rescued from the midmost flame, / before me, sleepless for my country's shame, / stood plain, in plenteousness of light confessed, / where streaming through the sunken lattice came / the moon's full splendour, and their speech addressed, / and I in heart took comfort, hearing their behest."
Etymology
From Middle English latis, from Middle French lattis (“lathing”), from Old French lattis, from latte (“a lath”), from Frankish *lattā, *lattu (“a lath”), from Proto-Germanic *lattǭ, *lattō, *laþþō (“board; plank; ledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)latn-, *(s)lat- (“beam; log”). Cognate with Old High German latta (“lath”), (German Latte), Old English lætt (“lath”), Middle Low German lāde (“plank, counter, sales counter”), German Laden (“shop”). More at lath.