lattice
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To investigate these collisions under tightly controlled conditions, the team used an optical lattice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
It was made from two sheets of metal lattice mesh, which HSE inspectors determined was poorly designed.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The Hammetschwand Lift, a rocket-shaped metal lattice tower and the highest outdoor lift in Europe, shoots up 152 metres to the mountain summit.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
The team studied how angular momentum travels between lattice vibrations, which are coordinated motions of atoms inside a crystal.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
If only she would learn some theory, she would understand how her supposed antihelical features arose from the minor distortions needed to pack regular helices into a crystalline lattice.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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In most moiré systems, the size of physical effects is determined directly by the interference pattern created when two crystal lattices overlap.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
In Australia, First Graphene says it has found a way to slow the spread of fire in plastics by adding graphene – tiny flakes of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Based on this insight, they developed the theoretical framework of "optical thermodynamics," describing how light in nonlinear lattices can undergo processes analogous to expansion, compression, and even phase transitions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025
Instead, they make padding out of a network of hexagonal towers, or "plate lattices," that look a bit like honeycombs.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
He turned over on his back and looked weakly up into the sky through the high shifting lattices of fight.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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A piped-in soundtrack simulates urban din, and latticed wood alcoves emulate storefronts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
Glasgow's coat of arms includes a tree, a bird, a fish and a bell - but this giant steel latticed structure beside the Clyde has become an unofficial emblem of the city.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Board fencing is the most common way to get the job done, but using latticed or custom-grid fencing can offer more depth and interest.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
The Sultana, who is a stout but beautiful young woman, sat upon silk cushions striped with silver, near a latticed window overlooking the sea.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Here the roof, latticed through and through with fine roots, was very strong.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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Its narrator is an Ohio housewife who reflects on her past, her family and her country while latticing cherry pies.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2019
We got a sense that this episode would be awkward, but the thread latticing the episode turned out to be much darker.
From Time ● Apr. 9, 2012
They may see the scaffolding of the great shipyards latticing themselves against the sky, and the granite quarries against the hills.
From The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth by Agnes Rothery
He was completely hidden, except in front, where the wicker latticing did not extend.
From The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border by Gerald Breckenridge
The latticing might be very much stronger than necessary, but it would not add anything to the strength of the column to resist compression.
From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Edward Godfrey
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