close-packed

Speech parts

1. close-packed - Adjective

2. close-packed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

packed especially tightly

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A number of designs were used, including a tetrahedron which could be close-packed without waste space, and could not be knocked over accidentally. Source: Internet

For example, in cubic close-packed crystals, the stacking sequence of a twin boundary would be ABCABCBACBA. Source: Internet

The fcc structure is a close-packed structure unlike the bcc structure; thus the volume of the iron decreases when this transformation occurs. Source: Internet

However, whereas the brucite structure can be described as a close-packed structure in gibbsite the OH groups on the underside of one layer rest on the groups of the layer below. Source: Internet

In a hexagonal close-packed lattice they correspond to the corners of the triangular orthobicupola. Source: Internet

In metallic materials, b is aligned with close-packed crystallographic directions and its magnitude is equivalent to one interatomic spacing. Source: Internet

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