semiconducting material
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1. 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 (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | conductor, |
| definition | : | a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | atomic number 32, ge, germanium, |
| definition | : | a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | atomic number 14, si, silicon, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.substance) |
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