Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

space group

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.07 in modern English

Syllables: space -group
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The set of all symmetry operations that can be applied to a given crystal without changing it.

Example Sentences

"Dorothy also learned to identify the space group of a molecule, an essential prerequisite for finding the structure, by looking for spots that were missing from the regular array in an X-ray photograph."

Inflected Forms

space groups (plural)

Questions

What does space group mean?: The set of all symmetry operations that can be applied to a given crystal without changing it.

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