wafer meaning

Noun: wafer  weyfu(r)

1. A small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters 
2. A small thin crisp cake or cookie 
3. Thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)

Derived forms: wafers

Type of: bicky [Brit], bikkie [Brit], bikky [Brit], biscuit [Brit], bread, breadstuff, cookie [N. Amer], cooky [N. Amer], library paste, paste, staff of life

Encyclopedia: Wafer

[Electronics]
1. Semiconductor die.
2. A thin, flat disk, ring, or plate around which the contacts of a rotary switch are spaced.
3. A thin square or rectangle of dielectric material used as the dielectric member in a fixed capacitor.
4. A plate cut from a crystal (e.g., a quartz wafer).

[Medicine]
n : CACHET

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1. now people can produce a wafer silicon.
2. historically, wafers were waxed onto a metal plate.
3. personnel must wear proper clothing to protect the wafers.
4. all organic and metallic residues on the wafers must be removed.
5. the dust produced during slicing weighs almost as much as the wafers.