semiconductor
nounHow to pronounce semiconductor:
Definition of semiconductor:
- semiconductor (noun):
- a conductor made with semiconducting material.
- any of a class of solids (such as germanium or silicon) whose electrical conductivity is between that of a conductor and that of an insulator in being nearly as great as that of a metal at high temperatures and nearly absent at low temperatures
Synonyms for semiconductor:
chip
conductor
crystal rectifier
diode
electronic transistor
junction rectifier
junction transistor
micro chip
microchip
microprocessor chip
p-type semiconductor
semiconducting material
semiconductor device
semiconductor diode
semiconductor unit
silicon chip
thermal resistor
thermistor
transistor
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- Alexandria
- deteriorate
- imaginary
- regeneracy
- immorality
- examinable
- vivisepulture
- schematically
- recognisable
- phonasthenia
- hagiocracy
- Paleolithic
- Emiliano
- infuriating
- horrifically
- supernatural
- dissatisfaction
- harmoniously
- emphatically
- agitatedly
- practicality
- absentmindedly
- undergraduate
- elliptically
- businessperson
- unevasively
- punctiliously
- self-aggrandizement
- iconography
- contemporaneous
- aluminium
- sedimentary
- classification
- sentimentalize
- undependable
- commonality
- ferociousness
- dissemination
- unobtainable
- expository
- proportionate
- symmetrically
- wahunsonacock
- incidentally
- loquaciousness
- concavo-convex
- kyrie eleison
- repetitively
- unabashedly
- accelerative
- … more
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