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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A geometric arrangement of the points in space at which the atoms, molecules, or ions of a crystal occur.
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- noun crystallography A
regular three-dimensional geometric arrangement ofatoms ,molecules orions in a crystal
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- noun a 3-dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystal
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