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WAFER [9 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

wafer: an item in the "Personal Symbols" class of the "Communication Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

cachet : objet de la classe «Symboles personnels» de la catégorie «Objets de communication».

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cookies and Cookie Making
DEF

A thin, light, crisp sweet biscuit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biscuits et biscuiterie
DEF

Biscuit sec feuilleté, alvéolé, [souvent] fourré de crème, de confiture.

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
DEF

A specialized knife-cut wood flake having a controlled length of a least 30 mm (1 1/4") along the grain, a controlled thickness and variable width.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
DEF

Copeau de bois de longueur contrôlée d'au moins 30 mm (1 1/4") dans le sens du fil, d'épaisseur contrôlée et de largeur variable, coupé au moyen d'un couteau spécial.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Semiconductors (Electronics)
DEF

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

CONT

[A wafer is] a round disc of semiconductor material [that is] 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 ... Many integrated circuits are simultaneously fabricated on wafers during the wafer fabrication process.

CONT

Slice [is] another term for wafer, most often used during wafer manufacture where wafers are sliced from an ingot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Semi-conducteurs (Électronique)
DEF

Disque de faible épaisseur découpé dans un lingot monocristallin de matériau semiconducteur et utilisé comme matériau de base pour réaliser un ou plusieurs circuits ou composants en une seule fois.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Semiconductores (Electrónica)
DEF

Fina plancha de material semiconductor [...] sobre la que se construyen microcircuitos [...]

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Record 5 2008-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Appliances and Equipment
DEF

An element of a rotary switch consisting of a fixed disk (stator) and a rotating disk (rotor), both equipped with contacts to provide two or more circuit combinations.

OBS

A number of wafers may be mounted on a single shaft and thus be operated simultaneously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage électrique
DEF

Élément d'un commutateur rotatif comprenant un disque fixe (stator) et un disque tournant (rotor) équipés de contacts pouvant combiner des circuits de façons diverses.

OBS

Plusieurs galettes peuvent être montées sur un axe de façon à faire tourner tous les rotors simultanément.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aparatos y equipos eléctricos
DEF

Elemento de un conmutador rotativo que comprende un disco fijo (estator) y un disco giratorio (rotor), capaz de conectar las terminales en combinaciones determinadas.

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Record 6 2003-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
DEF

Capsule de pain azyme dans laquelle on enveloppe certains médicaments.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicamentos
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Record 7 2001-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
CONT

The human genome project is barely complete, and yet scientists already want to put the whole thing on one tiny chip. Well, one "wafer," to be more precise. Each wafer, a proprietary technology of Perlegen, a Silicon Valley biotech company, will consist of 300 glass slides that can hold the chemical makeup of the entire human genome. On Monday, Brad Margus, president of Perlegen, discussed his company's ambitious effort to put the genomes of 50 individuals on chips so that they could be used to compare differences side by side.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments

Spanish

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Record 8 1997-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coins and Bank Notes
  • Numismatics
  • Coining
DEF

Bullion manufactured in thin form.

OBS

See related term: bullion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque
  • Numismatique
  • Monnayage

Spanish

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Record 9 1985-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

One ounce of pure gold having the form of a wafer biscuit.

OBS

The 1st of March 1983, it was worth 525 $ CDN.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
OBS

Répondant au désir des gens ordinaires d'acheter de l'or, on en est venu aux petits lingots ne pesant qu'une once. Éviter "gaufrette d'or" qui fait un peu trop "biscuit". Renseignements obtenus de la Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse à Montréal, Service de traduction.

Spanish

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