Definition of Wafer

Babylon English
wafer
n. thin crispy cookie or cracker (often eaten as a desert with ice cream); bite-size piece of unleavened bread taken during the Eucharist (Christianity); chip (Electronics); flat round bit of adhesive (as is used to seal an envelope)
v. close or seal with a wafer (an envelope); divide into wafers (Electronics); pack powdered medicine in dried flour paste or rice paper (Pharmacology)

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Wafer Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

Integrated Circuit Terminology
Wafer
a round disc of semiconductor material most commonly Silicon, although Gallium Arsenide and other semiconductor materials are also used. Wafers are a few millimeters thick and are available in a variety of diameters with 100 millimeter, 125 millimeter, 150 millimeter and 200 millimeter being the most common and 300 millimeter just entering use. Many Integrated Circuits are simultaneously fabricated on wafers during the wafer fabrication process.


Wafer Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Wafer
(v. t.)
To seal or close with a wafer.
  
(n.)
An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
  
(n.)
A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.
  
(n.)
A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
  

WordNet 2.0
wafer

Noun
1. a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
(hypernym) paste, library paste
2. a small thin crisp cake or cookie
(hypernym) cookie, cooky, biscuit
3. thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
(hypernym) bread, breadstuff, staff of life

hEnglish - advanced version
wafer

wafer
\wa"fer\ (?), n. [oe. wafre, of. waufre, qaufre, f. qaufre; of teutonic origin; cf. lg. & d. wafel, g. waffel, dan. vaffel, sw. v?ffla; all akin to g. wabe a honeycomb, ohg. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. g. wabe is probably akin to e. weave. see weave, and cf. waffle, gauffer.]
1. (cookery) a thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. wafers piping hot out of the gleed. the curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. a woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making jonson.
2. (eccl.) a thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the eucharist, as in the roman catholic church.
3. an adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
wafer
cake, a sweet, thin cake.
wafer
irons, or
wafer
tongs (cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked.
wafer
woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. & fl.
wafer
\wa"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. wafered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. wafering.] to seal or close with a wafer.
wafer
n
1. a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
2. a small thin crisp cake or cookie
3. thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the eucharist)


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 wafer-thin 

Everyday English and Slang in Ireland
Wafer (n)
ice cream sandwiched between two flat wafers

Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
wafer
abhlann

English Phonetics

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Afrlladen
Afrlladen = n. a cake, a wafer


Wafer Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

EIA Energy Glossary
Wafer
A thin sheet of semiconductor (photovoltaic material) made by cutting it from a single crystal or ingot.

Telecommunication Standard Terms
wafer
A thin slice of semiconducting material, such as a silicon crystal, upon which microcircuits are constructed by diffusion and deposition of various materials. Note: Millions of individual circuit elements, constituting hundreds of microcircuits, may be constructed on a single wafer. The individual microcircuits are separated by scoring and breaking the wafer into individual chips ("dice").

AJA_Glossary of Wireless, RF and Microwave Terms
Wafer
A single slice of substrate material (silicon or gallium arsenide) upon which many transistors are fabricated. The wafer is then tested, scribed and broken apart to produce transistor chips.


Wafer Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries

Dream Dictionary
Wafer
Wafer, if seen in a dream, purports an encounter with enemies. To eat one, suggests impoverished fortune.

For a young woman to bake them, denotes that she will be tormented and distressed by fears of remaining in the unmarried state.
  


Wafer Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Wafer
In cooking, a wafer is a crisp, sweet, very thin, flat, and dry cake that is often used to decorate ice cream. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern.

The word also refers to the special small round flat breads made for Anglican Holy Communion services; the word host is used in the Roman Catholic liturgy. These holy wafers often have an image of the crucified Christ imprinted on them.

In the spa towns of the Slovak Republic (e.g. Piešťany, etc.) special "spa wafers" (kúpeľné oplátky) are produced.


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