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primitive cell
noun
, Crystallography.
- a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of primitive cell1
First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences
In the act of cell-division the nuclei of the resulting cells are formed from the nucleus of the primitive cell.
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The unnucleated plastid might be called primitive cell (protocytos), and the ordinary nucleated one the nuclear cell (caryocytos).
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It is the life-basis, the primitive cell of the aggregate of cities and bodies politic.
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The mere process by which a primitive cell divides and reproduces itself has an air of demonic intelligence about it.
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Germ, as in blastoderm, the primitive cell layer in the beginning embryo, consisting of three layers.
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