| 单词 | silicon |
| 释义 | silicon (once / 2827 pages) n WORD FAMILY silicon USAGE EXAMPLESTrump met with several Silicon Valley executives last month, telling them his administration was “here to help you folks do well.” Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs anticipate a time when robots and artificial intelligence will render many of today’s jobs obsolete. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) “That’s something that’s always been an issue with the proximity to Silicon Valley,” he said. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) n a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors Syn|Hyper Si, atomic number 14 chemical element, element any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter semiconducting material, semiconductora substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities |
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