Orthorhombic
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In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 lattice point groups. Orthorhombic lattices result from stretching a cubic lattice along two of its lattice vectors by two different factors, resulting in a rectangular prism with a rectangular base (a by b, which is different from a) and height (c, which is different from a and b). The three lattice vectors remain mutually orthogonal.
There are four orthorhombic Bravais lattices: simple orthorhombic, base-centered orthorhombic, body-centered orthorhombic, and face-centered orthorhombic.
| simple orthorhombic | base-centered orthorhombic | body-centered orthorhombic | face-centered orthorhombic |
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| Missing image Orthorhombic-body-centered.png Orthohombic, body-centered | 
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The point groups (or crystal classes) that fall under this crystal system are listed below, followed by their representations in international notation and Schoenflies notation, and mineral examples.
| name | international | Schoenflies | example |
| orthorhombic bipyramidal | <math>\frac2m \frac2m \frac2m<math> | D2h | sulfur |
| orthorhombic pyramidal | <math>2mm<math> | C2v | |
| orthorhombic sphenoidal | <math>222<math> | D2 |