Cheshire Cell

[Richard Carter <rcarter@ucdavis.edu>]

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A table of the Cheshire cells for all 230 space groups is avialable in
Hirshfeld (1968) Acta Cryst A24 301-311


>   It is mentioned in the AMoRe manual that
> The asymmetric unit that needs to be searched for the translation function
> (1-body) is the Cheshire cell while for n-body translation it is the whole
> cell.
>  Can someone enlighten me as to what constitutes the cheshire cell -Please
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