Usually means: Regular, repeating grid of points.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word lattices:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. lattices: Merriam-Webster
  2. lattices: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lattices: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lattice's, lattices: Wordnik
  5. lattices: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lattices: Wiktionary
  7. lattices: Dictionary.com
  8. lattices: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lattices: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lattices: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. lattices: Medical dictionary

(Note: See lattice as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lattice)

noun:  A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
noun:  (heraldry) A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
noun:  (crystallography) A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
noun:  (music) A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
noun:  (mathematics, algebra) In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in.
noun:  (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and which spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
noun:  (topology, Lie theory, generalizing sense 5.1) A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
noun:  (algebra, ring theory, generalizing sense 5.1, with respect to a vector space V over a field F which is the field of fractions of an integral domain R in F) A finitely generated R-submodule of V which spans V over F. (In this case the submodule is called an R-lattice'').
noun:  (mathematics, order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
verb:  To make a lattice of.
verb:  To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
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