: to divide (something, such as a silicon rod) into wafers
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Noun
The first video of Rocky, posted on April 27, 2021, shows the animal eating a vanilla wafer. Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 14 Sep. 2022 The toilet will be separated from the bedroom by a wall the width and consistency of a Communion wafer. Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2022 The margin between winning and losing each week can be wafer thin, and the outcome of a few close games can make the difference between a good season and a lousy one. Usa Today Sports Network, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2022 As a result, 5 of the 6 U.S. solar wafer manufacturing plants operating in 2009 shut down by 2013, according to Clean Energy Associates. T.j. Rodgers, WSJ, 24 May 2022 Enormous machines project designs for chips across each wafer, and then deposit and etch away layers of materials to create their transistors and connect them.New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022 The process involves a diamond seed — a thin wafer of existing gemstone — as well as raw carbon and energy, which are then put under conditions that mimic the natural environment where a traditional diamond flourishes. Frances Solá-santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022 These gratings are made on Intel’s standard 300mm CMOS wafer line using deep-UV immersion lithography, which is a high-volume, low-cost process. Steven Leibson, Forbes, 28 June 2022 The accommodations might include welcoming more wandering around the church than usual and providing applesauce with just a small amount of communion wafer for those who have difficulty swallowing. Sophy Chaffee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
Verb
LAM Research, a company that supplies wafer fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry saw its last stock split in 2020. Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 June 2022 Highly energy efficient and often wafer thin, OLEDs are the technology of choice in high-end cellphone displays and televisions.New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022 The bottom of a L’industrie pie — wafer thin but still somehow pliable — is a miracle of engineering.New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021 Historic wafering iron designs indicate that, like today, the irons could be given as wedding gifts. Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French wafer, walfre, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch wafele waffle