glide plane
noun Crystallography.
a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
Origin of glide plane
First recorded in 1890–95
Words nearby glide plane
glib,
glib ice,
glidden,
glide,
glide path,
glide plane,
glide slope,
glide time,
glidepath,
glider,
gliding
Example sentences from the Web for glide plane
This plane, which truncates the edge of the rhombohedron and has the indices , is called a “glide-plane.”