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screw axis
noun
Crystallography.
- a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of screw axis1
First recorded in 1900–05
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