semiconductor.

A material whose electrical conductivity can be controlled and lies between that of typical conductors and insulators.

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Words that belong together

• semiconductor device
• semiconductor wafer

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Impurities changed the semiconductor’s behavior.

The factory processed semiconductor wafers.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular semiconductor; plural semiconductors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.