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unit cell

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The smallest building block of a crystal, consisting of atoms, ions, or molecules, whose geometric arrangement defines a crystal's characteristic symmetry and whose repetition in space produces a crystal lattice.

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unit cell

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(Chemistry) Crystallog the smallest group of atoms, ions, or molecules that is characteristic of a particular crystal lattice

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unit cell - the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal building block, unit - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"