lattice
/ˈlætɪs/
noun
- A structure made of strips of wood, metal, or other material that cross each other with open spaces between them, often used as a screen or support for climbing plants.
- The garden fence was covered with a wooden lattice for the roses to climb.
- She hung a small lattice against the wall to create a decorative screen.
- The old porch had a lattice underneath to hide the foundation.
- A pattern or arrangement that looks like a grid or crisscross design.
- The pie crust had a beautiful lattice of dough strips on top.
- The window had a lattice of iron bars for security.
- The artist painted a lattice of intersecting lines across the canvas.
- In science and mathematics, a regular, repeating three-dimensional arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystal, or a partially ordered set with certain properties.
- Diamonds have a very strong crystal lattice structure.
- In mathematics, a lattice is a set where every pair has a unique supremum and infimum.
- The physicist studied the lattice of atoms in the metal sample.