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A '''Fokker block''' (or periodicity block) is a [[periodic scale|periodic]] [[scale]] that can be thought of as a tile on a lattice of [[pitch class]]es (of a [[JI subgroup]] or a [[regular temperament]]) shaped as a parallelogram, parallelepiped or higher-dimensional analog. It comprises those intervals in the lattice which fall inside the tile after moving the tile on the lattice to a place where no lattice point is on its boundary. (Different positions of the tile can create scales which are not rotations of each other.) The scale repeats at the [[interval of equivalence]], which lies on the [[1/1|unison]] in the lattice of pitch classes.

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 A '''Fokker block''' (or periodicity block) is a [[periodic scale|periodic]] [[scale]] that can be thought of as a tile on a lattice of [[pitch class]]es (of a [[JI subgroup]] or a [[regular temperament]]) shaped as a parallelogram, parallelepiped or higher-dimensional analog. It comprises those intervals in the lattice which fall inside the tile after moving the tile on the lattice to a place where no lattice point is on its boundary. (Different positions of the tile can create scales which are not rotations of each other.) The scale repeats at the [[interval of equivalence]], which lies on the [[1/1|unison]] in the lattice of pitch classes.