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| + | <font color="blue">Motif cristallin</font> (''Fr''). <font color="red">Unendlicher Idealkristall</font> (''Ge''). <font color="black">Motivo cristallino</font>(''It''). <font color="purple">結晶模様</font> (''Ja''). <font color="green">Cristal ideal infinito</font> (''Sp''). | ||
An object in the ''n''-dimensional [[point space]] ''E<sup>n</sup>'' is called an ''n''-dimensional '''crystallographic pattern''' or, for short, '''crystal pattern''' if among its symmetry operations: | An object in the ''n''-dimensional [[point space]] ''E<sup>n</sup>'' is called an ''n''-dimensional '''crystallographic pattern''' or, for short, '''crystal pattern''' if among its symmetry operations: | ||
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Synonym: infinite ideal crystal
Motif cristallin (Fr). Unendlicher Idealkristall (Ge). Motivo cristallino(It). 結晶模様 (Ja). Cristal ideal infinito (Sp).
An object in the n-dimensional point space En is called an n-dimensional crystallographic pattern or, for short, crystal pattern if among its symmetry operations:
- there are n translations, the translation vectors t1, ... , tn of which are linearly independent;
- all translation vectors, except the zero vector 0, have a length of at least d > 0.
When the crystal pattern consists of atoms, it takes the name of crystal structure. The crystal pattern is thus the generalization of a crystal structure to any pattern, concrete or abstract, in any dimension, which obeys the conditions of periodicity and discreteness expressed above.
See also
- Point space
- Noncrystallographic symmetry
- International Tables for Crystallography, Volumes A and A1