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UNIT CELL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("unit cell" is a kind of...):
building block; unit (a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else)