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unit cell

noun

Crystallography.
  1. the simplest unit of a regular lattice.


unit cell

noun

  1. crystallog the smallest group of atoms, ions, or molecules that is characteristic of a particular crystal lattice
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of unit cell1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Last week, a 34-year-old man was found unconscious in a medical unit cell at the jail, where he had been held since 2019.

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Ventura said that corrections officers found the unidentified man unresponsive in a single unit cell Tuesday at John J. Moran Medium Security facility.

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This halves the size of the Brillouin zone — a unit cell of the abstract ‘momentum space’ that is used to describe the properties of electrons in semiconductors.

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The atomic or molecular order in a crystal is defined by the unit cell, which is the smallest repeating unit of the crystal structure.

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These nanometre-scale potentials are caused by the layers having different orientations or lattice constants — parameters that describe the dimensions of a unit cell in a crystal lattice.

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