"space group" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: space groups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} space group (plural space groups)
  1. (crystallography, mineralogy) The set of all symmetry operations that can be applied to a given crystal without changing it. Wikipedia link: space group Categories (topical): Crystallography, Mineralogy

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