Bravais lattice
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Réseau de Bravais (Fr); Bravais Gitter (Ge)
see the entry Bravais class.
The current nomenclature adopted by the IUCr prefers to use the expression Bravais type or Bravais class. This is to emphasize that Bravais lattices are not individual lattices but types or classes of all lattices with certain common properties (IT vol. A, § 8.2.5).