wafer

  • 21wafer — wa•fer [[t]ˈweɪ fər[/t]] n. 1) coo a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored 2) rel a thin disk of unleavened bread, used in the Eucharist 3) a thin disk, esp. of dried paste, used esp. for sealing letters 4) any small, thin… …

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  • 22wafer — /ˈweɪfə / (say wayfuh) noun 1. a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, variously made, and often sweetened and flavoured, usually eaten with ice cream. 2. a thin piece, usually a disc, of unleavened bread, commonly used in the celebration of the Eucharist …

  • 23wafer — n. & v. n. 1 a very thin light crisp sweet biscuit, esp. of a kind eaten with ice cream. 2 a thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist. 3 a disc of red paper stuck on a legal document instead of a seal. 4 Electronics a very thin slice… …

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  • 24wafer — noun /ˈweɪfə/ a) A light, thin, flat biscuit. The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost …

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  • 25wafer — wa|fer [ˈweıfə US ər] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old North French; Origin: waufre] 1.) a very thin ↑biscuit 2.) a thin round piece of bread eaten with wine in the Christian ↑communion ceremony 3.) a very thin flat piece of a hard substance wafer of ▪ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26Wafer — Wa|fer [ weifə] der; s, [s] <aus gleichbed. engl. wafer, eigtl. »Waffel, Oblate«> Halbleiterscheibe, dünne Siliciumscheibe, auf die integrierte Schaltungen aufgebracht werden (EDV) …

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  • 27wafer — wa·fer || weɪfÉ™(r) v. close or seal with a wafer (an envelope); divide into wafers (Electronics); pack powdered medicine in dried flour paste or rice paper (Pharmacology) n. thin crispy cookie or cracker (often eaten as a desert with ice… …

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  • 28Wafer-scale integration — Wafer scale integration, WSI for short, is a yet unused system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single super chip . Through a combination of large size and reduced packaging, WSI… …

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  • 29Wafer testing — is a step performed during semiconductor device fabrication. During this step, performed before a wafer is sent to die preparation, all individual integrated circuits that are present on the wafer are tested for functional defects by applying… …

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  • 30Wafer cake — Wafer Wa fer, n. [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. v[*a]ffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is… …

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