"wafer"

Definition:

• A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
• 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.
• An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
• To seal or close with a wafer.

Web Definitions for wafer

• a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
• a small thin crisp cake or cookie
• thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
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• In cooking, a wafer is a crisp, sweet, very thin, flat, and dry cake, often used to decorate ice cream. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. ...
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer

• A wafer is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a silicon crystal, used in the fabrication of integrated circuit and other microdevices. ...
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer (electronics)

• a light, thin, flat biscuit; a thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion; a thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wafer

• a thin, sweet biscuit.
  www.mcgacanola.org/CookingDictionaryW.html

• The bread portion of the Lord's Supper; an unleavened, thin cracker; imprinted with a cross.
  www.trinityparish.com/glossary.html

• A cut and polished disk of crystal used in the manufacture of integrated circuits
  www.soitec.com/en/glossary.php

• A thin gold bar popular in the Middle East, South East Asia and Japan. WAREHOUSE RECEIPT A warehouse or depository receipt is issued when delivery ...
  www.lbma.org.uk/london_glossary.html

• A thin sheet of semiconductor (photovoltaic material) made by cutting it from a single crystal or ingot.
  www.kyocerasolar.com/solar/glossary.html

• A generic term used to describe small gold bars, (usually less than 50 grams). So-called because they are thin and resemble a wafer biscuit.
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• All semiconductor devices are fabricated on wafers. Round wafers are used in order to simplify automated handling during manufacturing. ...
  www.itl.arizona.edu/Education/glossary.html

• a round disc of semiconductor material most commonly Silicon, although Gallium Arsenide and other semiconductor materials are also used. ...
  www.icknowledge.com/glossary/w.html

• A chewable tablet or cookie like form of supplement. Often activated by saliva or used to bypass powerful stomach acids.
  www.herbs2000.com/h_menu/glossary.htm

• the glass substrate onto which probes are synthesized during the manufacturing of probe arrays.
  www.plexdb.org/modules/documentation/glossary.php

• Semiconductor processing is done on round disks of silicon called wafers. A current generation wafer is 8 inches in diameter, the thickness of a credit card, weighs about a third of a pound, and is polished to a mirror finish on one side. It is silvery gray in color. back to top
  www.genus.com/glossary.html

• molded plate of an ostomy pouch system. Fits against and adheres to the skin.
  members.shaw.ca/saskatoonostomy/terminology.htm

• A wafer is a very thin slice of polished silicon and looks similar to a CD-ROM disk. It is used as the base for making integrated circuits.
  enpub.fulton.asu.edu/widebandgap/NewPages/Gloss2.html

• A thin disk (or slice) of silicon on which many separate chips can be fabricated and then cut into individual die.
  www.ami.ac.uk/courses/topics/0100_gls/glossary/glossw.htm

• Are flat slices of semiconductor made from two layers of different electrical behaviour: One layer can receive negative charge carriers (electrons ...
  www.wuerz.com/service_en/glossary.html

• A thin sheet of semiconductor material made by mechanically sawing it from a single-crystal or multicrystal ingot or casting. watt (W):The unit of electric power, or amount of work (J), done in a unit of time. One ampere of current flowing at a potential of one volt produces one watt of power. ...
  www.powerhousesolar.com/electric/solarterms.asp

• Very thin, crisp, sweet biscuit, served with ice cream etc. Wafer sandwich biscuits consist of several layers of wafer with a sweet or savoury ...
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• Round disc of pure silicon that is used in manufacturing integrated circuits.
  www.amv-services.com/Glossary%20of%20Gas%20Detection%20Terms.htm

• The circular piece of silicon, sapphire or other substrate material onto which the MEMS & integrated circuits are fabricated. A wafer normally consists of multiple dies, one IC per die. Wafers are available in 4", 6", 8" and 12" (300mm) diameters.
  www.inems.com/Student_area/Glossary/MEMS_terminology.htm