A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
Used in a Sentence
wafer
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wafer.
Editorial note
Perhaps a good example are silicon wafer manufactures (technically an oligopoly, but the same arguments apply).
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of wafer gathered in one view.
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
(Christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for wafer.
noun
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
noun
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
noun
(Christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
noun
(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
Example sentences
Perhaps a good example are silicon wafer manufactures (technically an oligopoly, but the same arguments apply).
You'd be talking about a substantially different process from standard wafer production, you'd have to tighten up the Z-resolution, etc.
Also avoid businesses where your margins are wafer-thin and you are competing with undocumented labor.
You can't count on wafers being exactly at the same size, so you build your machinery in a way that precise sizes aren't important, only relative measures within a wafer is.
As part of wafer testing certain paths are cut so you still end up with the amount of RAM you need.
Like all semiconductors, flash memory chips produced by the same process—and even cut from the same wafer—can have slightly different characteristics.
Inflation happens in some industries, but only generally industries with wafer thin profit margins.
Deca's software engineers develop next-generation electronic design automation (EDA) tools and manufacturing software that enable Deca's unique approach to wafer level semiconductor packaging.
He was hacking C for some embedded systems running silicon wafer equipment.
Since 7 nm is about the size of several atoms, your wafer probably needs to be almost perfectly pure, which can't be easy, either.
The second comes because you can stack more chips on a single wafer, and so get a bigger yield out of each production run.
Then there are controlled-vapor-deposition synthetic diamonds, which are manufactured by a process which looks a lot like a small semiconductor wafer fab circa 1985.
Quote examples
We have a wafer candy thing called "kukuruku", which makes the site's name funny to me.
The CEO of Applied Materials, Gary Dickerson, has stated that the 450mm wafer timeline “has definitely been pushed out from a timing standpoint.” That’s incredibly important, because the economics of 450mm wafers were tied directly to the economics of another struggling technology — EUV.
It's amazing how irreverent we can be towards just "computers" due to their apparent ubiquity and widespread availability, yet not appreciate that a single fabrication of a silicon wafer is far more complex than the couple hundred components that are put together in a watch.
Sure, a silicon wafer is built by machines, and does not have the "hand craftsmanship" of say a watch, yet, I would argue that far more collective effort went into designing circuits than did into designing the gear combinations that went into building a watch.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use wafer in a sentence?
Perhaps a good example are silicon wafer manufactures (technically an oligopoly, but the same arguments apply).
What does wafer mean?
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
What part of speech is wafer?
wafer is commonly used as noun.