semiconductor
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English
Etymology
Noun
semiconductor (plural semiconductors)
- (physics) A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator.
- 1876, Adolphe Ganot, Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons, page 422:
- In this sense we are to understand the following table in which bodies are classed as conductors, semiconductors, and nonconductors; those bodies being conveniently designated as conductors which, when applied to an electroscope charged with either kind of electricity discharge it almost instantaneously; semiconductors being those which discharge it in a short but measurable time, a few seconds, for instance; while nonconductors effect no discharge even, in the course of a minute.
- 1901, George W. Jacoby, A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: Electrotherapy:
- The following table of conductors may therefore be used in inverse order as a table of resistances, the good conductors being bodies of slight resistance, the semiconductors being bodies of great resistance, and the insulators being bodies of so great resistance that they almost effectually oppose the passage of any current.
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Translations
substance with electrical properties between conductor and insulator
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French semi-conducteur.
Noun
semiconductor n (plural semiconductoare)
Declension
Declension of semiconductor
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indefinite | semiconductor | semiconductoare | semiconductori | semiconductoare | ||
| definite | semiconductorul | semiconductoarea | semiconductorii | semiconductoarele | |||
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indefinite | semiconductor | semiconductoare | semiconductori | semiconductoare | ||
| definite | semiconductorului | semiconductoarei | semiconductorilor | semiconductoarelor | |||
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
semiconductor (feminine semiconductora, masculine plural semiconductores, feminine plural semiconductoras)
Noun
semiconductor m (plural semiconductores)
Further reading
- “semiconductor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014