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Named after Auguste Bravais (1811–1863), a French crystallographer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bravais lattice
Today it means: An infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of discrete translation operations mathbf R=n_1 mathbf a₁+n_2 mathbf a₂+n_3 mathbf a₃, where nᵢ are any integers and aᵢ are known as the primitive vectors which lie in different directions and span the lattice. Full definition →