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Definition of point group in English: point groupnoun Crystallography Any of the 32 sets of symmetry operations which can be used to characterize three-dimensional lattices and are the basis of the system of crystal classes. Example sentencesExamples - A new method was devised to deduce the orientation of the C 3 trimer axis with respect to the unit cell framework without any other input from the x-ray crystallographic analysis than the 222 point group of the unit cell.
- It crystallizes in the hexagonal system; its point group is thought to be 6 / m 2 / m 2 / m, although there is debate on its structure and symmetry.
- Another molecule with the same point group will experience the same number of vibration modes, though not at the same frequency due to a number of factors including the different weights of its constituent atoms.
- When taking into account the point group of the cocrystals (222 corresponding to the orthorhombic space group), the squares of the direction cosines between all C 3 axes and (a, b, c) should be identical.
- In spite of the loss of symmetry caused by methyl groups and other substituents, and by nonplanar ground-state conformations, all-trans-carotenoids are classified according to the C2h symmetry point group.
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