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SEMICONDUCTING MATERIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities
Synonyms:
semiconducting material; semiconductor
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("semiconducting material" is a kind of...):
conductor (a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semiconducting material"):
atomic number 32; Ge; germanium (a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite)
atomic number 14; Si; silicon (a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors)
Holonyms ("semiconducting material" is a substance of...):
semiconductor; semiconductor device; semiconductor unit (a conductor made with semiconducting material)
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