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▪ I. lattice, n.|ˈlætɪs|
Forms: 4 latijs, latis, pl. latises, -is, 4–6 latys, 5 lates, lateys(e, 5–6 latyse, 6 lateis, latesse, latise, lattes(e, -is, lettise, pl. lattas(s)es, 6–7 lattesse, 6–8 lattise, lettice, 7 latice, latteise, pl. lettases, 6– lattice.
[a. OF. and F. lattis, f. latte lath.]
1. a. A structure made of laths, or of wood or metal crossed and fastened together, with open spaces left between; used as a screen, e.g. in window openings and the like; a window, gate, screen, etc. so constructed.
1382Wyclif Prov. vii. 6 Fro the windowe..of myn hous bi the latys I beheeld the ȝunge man. 14..Chaucer's Troylus ii. 566 (615) (Harl. MS. 3943) A! go we see, caste up the latis [v.r. yates] wyde, For thurgh this strete he most to palays ryde. c1440Gesta Rom. lxxx. 400 (Add. MS.) The pareshe preste..sate at his selle, and lokede oute at his latyse towarde the kyrke. 1452–3in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 449 Pro factura x lateys in deambulatorio. c1475Partenay 4747 He..The lateis unshitte. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 116 Lattise keepeth out the light and letth in the winde. 1569Bury Wills (Camden) 155 The glasse lattases and bourdes belonginge to the howse. 1611Bible 2 Kings i. 2 Ahaziah fel downe thorow a lattesse in his vpper chamber. a1674Milton Hist. Mosc. Wks. 1738 II. 130 Small Windows, some of Glass, some with Latices, or Iron Bars. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 114 A Lattice of narrow Laths nail'd a cross one another checker⁓wise, every square consisting of about twelve Inches. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Lady Rich 1 Apr., They are made a good deal in the manner of the Dutch stage coaches, having wooden lattices painted and gilded. 1741tr. D'Argens Chinese Lett. xxv. 172 When they don't choose to be concealed, they open the Lettices. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles v. i, The sunbeam, through the narrow lattice, fell Upon the snowy neck [etc.]. 1822Byron Werner v. i. 44 The flowers fell faster—Rain'd from each lattice at his feet. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xx. 488 The diamond shape of the glass of old casements was suggested by the ancient lattice.
fig.1621Donne Progr. Soul, 2nd Anniv. Poems (1639) 243 Thou shalt not peepe through lattices of eyes, Nor heare through Labyrinths of eares. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. xiii. 409 He will..creep out at the lattice of a word. 1670Devout Commun. (1688) 93 Stand not at a distance behind the walls: shew thyself through the lattice of thy ordinance. 1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 473 Life's a debtor to the grave, Dark lattice! letting in eternal day. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxx, Thro' a lattice on the soul Looks thy fair face and makes it still.
†b. A window of lattice-work (usually painted red), or a pattern on the shutter or wall imitating this (see chequer n.1 4), formerly a common mark of an alehouse or inn. Obs.
1575Gascoigne Glasse Govt. iv. vi, There, at a howse with a red lattyce, you shall finde an old baude..and a yong damsell. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1590) 15 As they which determine vpon an Ale bench whether the passenger that passeth by the lettise be a Saint or a Diuell. 1592Arden of Faversham H 2, He..had beene sure to haue had his Signe puld down, & his latice borne away the next night. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 15 Some Alewiues, if they had knowne this receipt..wold haue hung out holly bushes at their red lettises, and so they might haue beene mistaken for Tauerns, of many ale knights. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 86 He call'd me euen now (my Lord) through a red Lattice. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iii. iii, At the signe of the water-tankerd, hard by the greene lattice. 163.Wotton Educ. in Reliq. (1672) 97 Amongst Tradesmen..they are not poorest, whose Shop windows open over a red Lettice. 1639Mayne City Match i. ii, If he draw not A Lattice to your doore, and hang a bush out. 1689Shadwell Bury F. i. i, She by Art makes her face look like a new white wall with a red lettice. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Lattice..with us now is generally an ensign of an Alehouse, which to make it the more conspicuous is commonly painted of various Colours, and those who have not a real Wooden one up at their Door, cause Chequers or Squares like 'em to be painted on their Window-shutters, Walls or Side-posts of the Door, &c.
c. Work of the kind described in 1; lattices collectively; = lattice-work. Also fig.
1577Harrison England ii. xii. (1877) i. 236 Our countrie houses, in steed of glasse, did use much lattise. 1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 14 Some beauty peept through lettice of sear'd age. 1601― All's Well ii. iii. 225 My good window of Lettice fare thee well. 1611Coryat Crudities 50 The vpper part of the window..is made of glasse or lattise. 1890F. G. Carpenter in Amer. Agriculturalist Oct. 512 (Funk) Rude frames of lattice filled with greased paper to act as windows.
2. transf.
a. Something with open interlaced structure like that of a lattice.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. Pref., This harmless Essay..may..induce your charity to connive at our imbecillity, by glancing through the Lattice of a diminishing Telescope. 1684R. Waller Nat. Exper. 132 Taking a sheet of Paper, we made several little Lattices in it. 1895C. R. B. Barrett Surrey iii. 91 An oak tree with a curiously twisted lattice of roots.
b. Her. A charge representing lattice-work.
1828W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I, Lattice, or Lettice,..is formed of perpendicular and horizontal bars,..and the lattice may be either interlaced, or not. 1889C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry 82/2 Lattice, Tirlace, or Treilée, consists of bars crossing one another at right angles, which do not interlace, but are nailed together at the crossings. 1969Franklyn & Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 199 Lattise,..alt. for ‘trellis’.
c. In textile manufacture, a lattice-work apron or conveyer used to carry material into or out of a machine.
1884W. S. B. Maclaren Spinning x. 213 The wool is taken from it by a roller which combs it off, and passes it on to an endless lattice, marked ‘upper lattice’. 1890J. Nasmith Mod. Cotton Spinning Machinery iii. 19 In each case it is customary to attach lattices to the machine, by which the cotton is thoroughly broken up. 1967Shaw & Eckersley Cotton xi. 77 The machine employs a lattice and rollers to feed the thread waste to a revolving cylinder covered with steel spikes.
d. Electr. = lattice network (see 4).
1934A. T. Starr Electr. Circuits & Wave Filters vi. 198 The lattice needs twice as many components as the bridged-T network. 1950W. C. Johnson Transmission Lines & Networks xiv. 303 The filters most generally used are made up of T or π sections and L ‘half sections’ connected on an image basis to form a ladder network... A more general structure, called the lattice, is shown in Fig. 14.3. Not only can the performance of any T or π be duplicated at all frequencies by a lattice, but a lattice can be designed to provide characteristics unobtainable with the T or π. 1960M. E. van Valkenburg Introd. Mod. Network Synthesis xii. 339 If there is any symmetrical network realization for a set of specification functions at all, then there is a symmetrical lattice realization.
†3. A part of the auditorium of a theatre (see quot.). Obs.
1818J. Warburton etc. Dublin II. 1113 Boxes 5s. 5d.; lattices 4s. 4d.; pit 3s. 3d.; gallery 2s. 2d. Ibid. 118 note, The interior of the house [c 1793] formed an ellipse, and was divided into three compartments—pit, boxes, and lattices, which were without division.
4. a. Any regular arrangement of points or point-like entities that fills a space, area, or line; spec. a crystal lattice or a space lattice; Bravais lattice |ˈbræveɪ| [named after Auguste Bravais (1811–63), French physicist], any lattice in which every point has exactly the same environment (as regards the distances and directions of other points of the lattice); spec. any of the fourteen different lattices of this kind in three dimensions (cf. space lattice); crystal lattice, the space lattice underlying the arrangement of atoms or molecules in a crystal; also, the arrangement of points occupied by the atoms or molecules or of the atoms or molecules themselves.
1895W. J. Pope tr. Fock's Introd. Chem. Crystallogr. ii. 12 Frankenheim..found that fifteen different space-lattices are possible, and then, having deduced from the cleavage and general habit of the crystals that fifteen fundamental forms of crystals are possible, he showed that these latter in many respects correspond with the lattices. Frankenheim's views are not in all respects correct. 1917Physical Rev. X. 441 Manganblende, MnS, is a simple cubic lattice like rock salt. 1926[see crystal lattice s.v. crystal B. 2 c]. 1927T. Verschoyle tr. Haas's Atomic Theory iii. 58 From the one-dimensional line-lattice, let us now pass to the two-dimensional plane-lattice, which will be formed by points with the coordinates x = k1a, y = k2b constructed in a plane coordinate system, where a and b are two lattice constants, and k1 and k2 can assume every integral value. 1934Nature 16 June 916/1 The electron extracted from the atom may only move through the periodic field of the lattice with certain discrete energies. 1935Discovery May 132/2 The patterns in which the atoms or charged atoms are arranged are often called lattices. There are ‘face-centred’ lattices, and ‘body-centred’ lattices, hexagonal close-packed lattices, and so on. 1936Mineral. Abstr. VI. 323 Recently structures have been suggested, e.g. for α-AgI, in which equivalent points are not completely filled or are occupied by different sorts of particles. These structures are said to have ‘defect lattices’. 1938W. A. Wooster Text-bk. Crystal Physics 280 A Bravais lattice is one of the fourteen possible arrangements of the points in space which have crystallographic symmetry. 1955Mineral. Mag. XXX. 625 There are in all twenty types of lattices, as defined by their symmetry element[s]: one one-dimensional, five two-dimensional, and fourteen three-dimensional. Ibid. 626 All lattices are formed by translations, and all are characterized by inversion. 1958W. K. Mansfield Elem. Nucl. Physics v. 39 These displacements distort solid lattices, producing effects similar to cold working, and decrease the electrical and thermal conductivity. 1966C. R. Tottle Sci. Engin. Materials iii. 67 The crystal lattice of an ionic compound depends on the size of the ions and on their valency. 1969A. P. Cracknell Crystals ii. 56 The mathematical condition to be satisfied in the definition of a lattice is quite stringent... In fact there are only five two-dimensional Bravais lattices. 1970A. J. C. Wilson Elem. X-Ray Crystallogr. iv. 52 Thirteen of the fourteen Bravais lattices (all except the triclinic lattice) possess at least one reflexion plane passing through each point of the lattice. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth i. 11/2 The halite lattice is built on a simple pattern in which sodium particles and chlorine particles occupy alternate corners of a continuously repeated set of cubes.
b. Nuclear Engin. An array of fuel and moderator in the core of a nuclear reactor.
1945H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes ii. 21 The steady production of atomic power requires a slow-neutron-induced fission chain reaction occurring in a mixture or lattice of uranium and moderator. 1959H. Jacobowitz Fund. Nucl. Energy & Power Reactors iii. 50 The Bulk Shielding Reactor comprises little more than an assembly of enriched uranium fuel elements immersed in water. The height of the active lattice is 24 inches. 1960S. E. Liverhant Elem. Introd. Nucl. Reactor Physics vii. 178 If the lattice or matrix arrangement (i.e., a heterogeneous system) is employed, a chain reaction becomes possible with natural uranium and graphite as moderator. 1973Jrnl. Nucl. Energy XXVII. 458 For water-beryllium lattices, the band structure and Nelkin's expansion..is [sic] computed for various directions.
5. Math. A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has an infimum and a supremum.
1933G. Birkhoff in Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. XXIX. 442 If we define a lattice to be any set of elements satisfying [axioms] I–VI , we can express our results as Theorem 3·1: The subalgebras of any algebra constitute a lattice. Ibid., [F.] Klein calls a finite lattice a ‘Verband’. 1951N. Jacobson Lect. Abstr. Algebra I. vii. 208 Boolean algebras were the first lattices to be studied. They were introduced by Boole in order to formalize the calculus of propositions. 1964H. G. Flegg Boolean Algebra iii. 18 The algebra of classes is frequently referred to as Boolean algebra. A rigorous treatment of the algebra has been made by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders MacLane and of its generalizations, lattice theory, by Birkhoff alone. 1965S. Warner Mod. Algebra I. iii. 105 An ordered structure (E, ≤) is a lattice and ≤ is a lattice ordering if for all x, y {elem} E, the subset {ob}x, y{cb} of E admits a supremum and an infimum. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. VII. 409/2 Lattice theory deals with properties of order and inclusion, much as group theory treats symmetry. Ibid., The real numbers form a lattice, if x≤y is given its usual meaning... Again, the set J of positive integers forms a lattice, if one lets m≤n mean ‘m divides n’.
6. attrib. and Comb., as lattice-blind, lattice-bough, lattice-box, lattice-closing, lattice-edge, lattice-fence, lattice-floor, lattice-hole, lattice-maker, lattice-mast, lattice-nail, lattice-ornament, lattice-pane, lattice-pattern, lattice steel; lattice-bar Bridge-building (see quot.); lattice beam = lattice girder; lattice-braid, a narrow lattice-like braid made on the lace-pillow (Caulfeild and Saward Dict. Needlework 1882 p. 43); lattice-bridge (see quot. 1857); † lattice caltrop (see quot.); lattice-cell (see quot. and cf. latticed 2 b); lattice conductivity Physics, the contribution to the thermal conductivity of a crystalline substance arising from transfer of energy between the vibrating atomic nuclei in the crystal lattice; so lattice conduction; lattice constant Cryst., the length of a side, or the size of an angle, of the unit cell of a lattice; spec. the length of each of the sides of the unit cell of a cubic lattice; lattice defect Cryst., an irregularity in a crystal lattice such as a missing atom or an interstitial one; lattice energy Physics, the energy required to separate the ions of a crystal to an infinite distance from one another; lattice filter Electr., a filter consisting of components connected so as to form a lattice network; lattice frame, girder, a girder consisting of two horizontal bars connected by diagonal bars crossed so as to resemble lattice-work; lattice leaf (plant), the Ouvirandra fenestralis or lace-leaf of Madagascar; also lattice plant; lattice moss, a moss of the genus Cinclidotus; lattice network Electr., a network having four impedances and two pairs of terminals, each terminal of one pair being connected by an impedance to each of the other pair; lattice plane Physics, any plane containing lattice points; a layer of atoms or molecules in a crystal; lattice point Math. (a) a point on a graph or in space having integral coordinates; (b) any of the points of which a lattice, esp. a crystal lattice, is composed; lattice-stitch (see quot.); lattice-truss, ‘one having horizontal chords and inclined intersecting braces’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); lattice vibration Physics, an oscillation of an atom or molecule about its equilibrium position in a crystal lattice; also, a lattice wave; lattice wave Physics, a displacement of atoms or molecules from their equilibrium position in a crystal which travels as a wave through the crystal; lattice-wise adv., in the form of a lattice or lattice-work.
1885Waddell Syst. Iron Railr. Bridges Japan 246 *Lattice-bar, a bar belonging to a system of latticing.
1850G. D. Dempsey Iron Girder Bridges iv. 36 *Lattice beams.
1832Tennyson Mariana in South 87 Backward the *lattice⁓blind she flung.
1878Symonds Many Moods 175 The star of Love, those *lattice-boughs between.
1865‘Mark Twain’ Celebr. Jumping Frog (1867) 16 Smiley kept the beast in a little *lattice box.
1838D. Stevenson Civil Engin. N. Amer. viii. 231 Town's Patent *Lattice Bridge. 1857Humber Iron Bridges & Girders 14 The Trellis Girder or Lattice Bridge, consisting of a top and bottom flange connected by a number of flat iron bars which are rivetted across each other at a certain angle, thus forming a lattice.
1497Nav. Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 97 *Latescaltraps [Footnote, Perhaps coltraps united by lattice work or rods forming a kind of cheval-de-frise, and thus distinguished from ‘casting caltrops’].
1888Syd. Soc. Lex., *Lattice-cells, in Botany, Mohl's term for cells whose walls are irregularly thickened in such a manner as to form a kind of net⁓work sculptured in relief.
c1425St. Eliz. of Spalbeck in Anglia VIII. 114/46 Þe chapel is departyd fro þe chaumbyr wiþ a smalle *latys-closynge.
1938Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. XXXIV. 475 The *lattice conduction is shown to be important in poor conductors. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth v. 86/2 At moderate temperatures..heat transfer in rocks is almost entirely by ‘lattice conduction’.
1938Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. XXXIV. 474 In good conductors the *lattice conductivity is unimportant. 1962Physical Rev. CXXVII. 1888/2 The lattice conductivity was increased by high-temperature annealing. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth v. 86/2 The lattice conductivity of the various rocks tends to converge with increasing temperatures to something like 2 to 3 W m-1 °K-1.
1923H. L. Brose tr. Sommerfeld's Atomic Struct. & Spectral Lines iii. 154 The crystal of smallest known *lattice constant, namely, diamond. 1927Lattice constant [see sense 4 above]. 1944Ann. Reg. 1943 363 Siegbahn's determination of the lattice-constant of calcite at 18°C. 1969Lattice constant [see lengenbachite]. 1973Physical Rev. B. VII. 674 Energy bands, Fermi surfaces, and densities of states of calcium as a function of lattice constant have been calculated.
1938Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. XXXIV. 486 We define a free path Li for scattering by impurities and *lattice defects on an atomic scale. 1959Phil. Mag. IV. 468 When a metal is strained, the lattice defects introduced cause scattering of the phonons and electrons.
1847Tennyson Princess ii. 15 Here and there on *lattice edges lay Or book or lute.
1924Physical Rev. XXIII. 497 (caption) *Lattice energies, from compressibility data, in kg-cal/g-mol. 1942C. E. K. Mees Theory Photogr. Process iv. 183 In the fifth column are given the differences between silver and sodium salts for the electrostatic lattice energy as another measure of deformation energy. 1965Geochem. Internat. II. 416/1 The methods of calculations of lattice energy are based on the assumption that the crystal is ideally ionic, but such crystals do not exist, and results are always approximate.
1861Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. IV. 259 An octagon, for exhibition of fancy articles..with a good *lattice fence to keep people from the exhibition tables. 1964H. O. Perkins Espaliers & Vines vi. 90 The lattice or Belgian fence types.
1935E. A. Guillemin Communication Networks II. x. 409 (caption) Behavior of the reactances (891 a) versus the frequency variable x = ω/ω1 for the low-pass *lattice filter whose index and characteristic impedance functions are given by eqs. (889 a) and (890 a). 1970J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers ii. 43 Another arrangement employs a pair of quartz elements within a transformer, the idea then being more representative of the ordinary quartz crystal filter. Such a filter, called a crystal lattice-filter, is shown in Fig. 2.18.
1916Blunden Harbingers 24 When the dryer in his oast Had loaded up his *lattice-floors, He called a binman at the doors.
1838D. Stevenson Civil Engin. N. Amer. viii. 233 *Lattice-frames.
1852Barton in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Notices 123 (title of art.) On the Calculation of strains in *Lattice Girders. 1897Daily News 6 Sept. 5/3 A steel pillar with a lattice girder construction.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. i. 32 In at a *lattes hole..fast flew there in a flie.
1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Ouvirandra, O. fenestralis..is best known as the *Lattice-leaf plant, from its singular leaves resembling open lattice-work. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 252 Allied to the Pondweeds is the rare Lattice-leaf (Ouvirandra fenestralis) of Madagascar.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 116, I wishe..*Lattise makers few, and glasiers many.
1924Harmsworth's Wireless Encycl. II. 1274 *Lattice mast, term used to describe a tall, composite structure for the support of a lofty aerial. This type of construction is carried out in both wood and metal... Such a mast is triangular in section, and comprises essentially three upright members held together by tie bars of metal and braced by diagonal bracing of stout timber. 1928A. Williams Telegr. & Telephony xxi. 282 An aerial is carried by five 28-ton lattice masts, 287 feet high, each resting on four legs bolted to 20-ton concrete blocks. 1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 399/1 Lattice mast, steel mast constructed of riveted structural steel shapes or lattice work.
1868F. E. Tripp Brit. Mosses 108 Cinclidotus,..*Lattice Moss.
1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 122 For dī Ml of *latis-naille price iijd.
1931H. W. Bode in U.S. Pat. 1,828,454 20 Oct. 1/1 An important general property of a symmetrical *lattice network is that its propagation constant and its characteristic impedance are mutually independent. 1934A. T. Starr Electr. Circuits & Wave Filters vi. 196 Such a lattice network has image impedance R at all frequencies, no attenuation at any frequency, and a phase shift which depends upon the reactance characteristic of Z1. 1956Amos & Birkinshaw Television Engin. II. ix. 126 In general a lattice network has two series and two shunt elements as shown in Fig. 68; this particular network is a symmetrical one in which both series elements are equal to Z1 and both shunt elements are equal to Z2... For purposes of calculation it is often more convenient to redraw the network in the form of a bridge circuit.
1923R. G. Collingwood Roman Brit. 75 Coarse ware with incised *lattice-ornament.
1840Mrs. Norton Dream 268 Beaming all redly thro' the *lattice-pane.
1875Fortnum Majolica viii. 71 *Lattice and diaper patterns.
1923G. Barr tr. Graetz's Recent Devel. Atomic Theory iv. 96 We will call each such series of similar parallel planes a system of *lattice planes. 1937Amer. Mineralogist XXII. 449 Consider any two successive lattice planes perpendicular to a screw axis. 1973K. W. Andrews Physical Metall. II. ii. 90 If the grating is actually composed of lattice planes, i.e. layers of atoms or molecules properly located in relation to the electron beam, then an image of these layers could be formed.
1877Bennett Thomé's Bot. 457 The aquatic Ouvirandra or *lattice plant. 1857in Cayley Coll. Math. Papers (1890) III. 40 Imagine now in a plane, a rectangular system of coordinates (x. y) and the whole plane divided by lines parallel to the axes at distances = 1 from each other into squares of the dimension = 1. And let the angles which do not lie on the axes of coordinates be called ‘*lattice points’.
1926Encycl. Brit. II. 832/2 A lattice point (Gitterpunkt) in space of any number of dimensions is a point with integral co-ordinates. 1936A. H. Wilson Theory of Metals ii. 48 We assume as zero approximation that the electron is in the neighbourhood of one particular lattice point. 1955Sci. News XV. 143 The gas is usually regarded as being accommodated on the lattice of the metal by occupying positions in its interstices, rather than replacing metal atoms at some of the lattice points. 1966Ogilvy & Anderson Excursions in Number Theory x. 120 The point (20, 47), having both its coordinates integers, is called a lattice point of the plane. It is a point of intersection of a horizontal and a vertical line of the coordinate grid, or lattice. 1967A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metall. xvii. 261 This array of lattice points is the space lattice of the crystal. It is important to notice that a lattice point is not an atomic site. In certain simple crystal structures..the pattern of atomic sites happens also to form a space lattice, but in many other structures..there is more than one atom in the motif.
1951Archit. Rev. CIX. 389/2 The *lattice-steel roof-trusses are supported on the inner leaf of the reinforced concrete walls and act as permanent shuttering for the concrete roof.
1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlewk. 187 *Lattice-stitch, a stitch used in Ticking work and other ornamental Embroideries for borders and formed of straight interlaced lines.
1942R. H. Newton Town & Davis: Architects ii. 42 The few sources I have consulted say nothing significant..about Ithiel Town as the inventor of the *lattice truss.
1936A. H. Wilson Theory of Metals vi. 200 The coupling between the electrons and the *lattice vibrations is due mainly to changes in the density of the solid. 1959Phil. Mag. IV. 468 At low temperatures the dominant lattice vibrations are those of long wavelength which are not scattered by the impurity atoms. 1969J. S. Blakemore Solid State Physics ii. 114 The particle—or phonon—aspect of lattice vibrations is particularly appropriate when we are concerned with energy transformation.
1936A. H. Wilson Theory of Metals vi. 201 We should then be compelled to take into account the dispersion of the *lattice waves. 1955H. B. G. Casimir in W. Pauli Niels Bohr 119 At temperatures well below the so-⁓called Debye temperature θ only lattice waves with a wave-length of many atomic distances are excited. 1971Donovan & Angress Lattice Vibrations iv. 83 In the harmonic approximation the lattice waves travel independently, without hindrance, so that the mean free path is infinite and the thermal resistance is zero.
1538Elyot Dict., Cancelli, latteses, or any thynge made *lattese wyse. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 239 Ryche cloth of golde traverced latyse wyse square. 1601Holland Pliny I. 166 Some sinewes running streight out in length, others crossing ouerthwart lattise-wise. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 37 An additional Door..made Lettice-wise; to the end that the People standing without might see what was done in the Temple.
▪ II. lattice, v.|ˈlætɪs|
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To furnish with a lattice or lattice-work. Also with up, over.
1428in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1829) 5 The seide parlore and tresance lattizid, glazid and selyd with othir necessariis. 1538Leland Itin. I. 55 A Closet in the midle of 8 Squares latisid aboute. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Clathrare, to close with crosse barres, or trayles: to lettise vp. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 7 Her eye is all latticed or chequered with dimples like Common Flyes. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. iv. 73 Each Window was latticed with Iron Wire on the out⁓side. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xi. 117 It was a wooden structure, latticed and pierced with auger-holes. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. i. 9 The narrow streets which are latticed over with matting.
2. trans. To form into a lattice, arrange as a lattice.
1950Amer. Speech XXV. 24 ‘Homogeneous’ piles and ‘heterogeneous’ piles, depending on whether the fissionable material is latticed with the moderating material.
▪ III. lattice
obs. form of lettuce. |