Lattice

Quick meaning: Lattice is a noun meaning A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.

Meaning

A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.

More Meanings

1. (heraldry) A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
2. (crystallography) A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
3. (mathematics, order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
4. To make a lattice of.
5. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
6. (music) A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
7. (mathematics, algebra) 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.

Example Sentences

to lattice timbers

to lattice a window

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.

As we descended the long wooden stairway that leads from the central tower to the Island of Inchgarvie, the straight and simple outlines of the internal viaduct stood out in sharp contrast to the long sweep of the massive tubular arms of the cantilevers, and the complicated network of the lattice cross girders.

Word Forms

• lattices
• latticing
• latticed

Synonyms for lattice

Depending on context, synonyms include latticework, grille, wicket, fretwork.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include latticework, grille, fretwork, wicket, mesh, network.

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