crystal symmetry

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crystal symmetry [¦krist·əl ′sim·ə·trē]

(crystallography)

The existence of nontrivial operations, consisting of inversions, rotations around an axis, reflections, and combinations of these, which bring a crystal into a position indistinguishable from its original position.

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