[
US
/ˈweɪfɝ/
]
[ UK /wˈeɪfɐ/ ]
[ UK /wˈeɪfɐ/ ]
NOUN
- thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
- a small thin crisp cake or cookie
- a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
How To Use wafer In A Sentence
- A technique known as Resin-Wafer Electrodeionization (RW-EDI) leverages control of pH to adsorb and desorb CO2 from flue gas without the need for heating or a vacuum. NASIOC
- Process chocolate wafers into fine crumbs in a food processor fitted with a metal blade.
- To overcome this problem, the Purdue researchers developed a means to create LEDs on low-cost, metal-coated silicon wafers, whereby the the silicon substrate is metalized with a built-in reflective layer of zirconium nitride. Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » New Low Cost LED Technology
- They typically etch chip designs onto a glass material called a photomask, which is then used to replicate the pattern onto silicon wafers. Computerworld News
- A microarray consists of single-stranded DNA arranged on a wafer the size of a postage stamp.
- Sensing trouble, Daniel shook his head and stuck his chocolate wafer into her cone.
- This wafer functions as an artificial retina; light hitting the wafer causes it to generate electrical stimuli that are applied to the optic nerve and restore some degree of vision.
- Actually it's called a monstrance and it contains a consecrated communion wafer (the big size that only priests get to eat), which by now has magically become the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the form of bread. (there was a time when people chopped each other's heads off over a disagreement about whether it contained any blood) "the abuse took place in the 1970s; the police were informed and acted" - Jack Valero RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
- The real challenge, then, is to be able to correct for distortion between the template and wafer.
- The team used a conventional damascene process to deposit the copper metal in the grooves of a dielectric material carried on 250 mm wafers.