from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A small thin crisp cake, biscuit, or candy.
- n. Ecclesiastical A small thin disk of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist.
- n. Pharmacology A flat tablet of rice paper or dried flour paste encasing a powdered drug.
- n. A small disk of adhesive material used as a seal for papers.
- n. Electronics A small thin circular slice of a semiconducting material, such as pure silicon, on which an integrated circuit can be formed.
- transitive v. To seal or fasten together with a disk of adhesive material.
- transitive v. Pharmacology To prepare in the form of wafers.
- transitive v. Electronics To divide into wafers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A light, thin, flat biscuit.
- n. A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
- n. A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
- n. A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
- v. To seal or close with a wafer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
- 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. 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. Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; -- a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits.
- transitive v. To seal or close with a wafer.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In photography, chemicals employed in developing, compressed into a flat cake to be dissolved in water for use.
- n. A thin cake or leaf of paste, generally disk-shaped.
- n. A small and delicate cake or biscuit, usually sweetened, variously flavored, and sometimes rolled up.
- n. A thin circular disk of unleavened bread used in the celebration of the eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and in many Anglican churches. The wafer derives its form from the fact that the bread of the Jews was ordinarily in this shape; and both the ancient pictured representations and the references in the early patristic literature confirm the opinion that this was the form in use in the church from the apostolic days. Wafers are usually stamped with the form of a cross, crucifix, or Agnus Dei, with the initials I. H. S., or sometimes with a monogram representing the name of Christ. See altar-bread, and oblate, n., 2.
- n. A thin disk of dried paste, used for sealing letters, fastening documents together, and similar purposes, usually made of flour mixed with water, gum, and some nonpoisonous coloring matter. Fancy transparent wafers are made of gelatin and isinglass in a variety of forms.
- n. In artillery, a kind of primer. See primer.
- n. In medicine, a thin circular sheet of dry paste used to facilitate the swallowing of powders. The sheet is moistened, and folded over the powder placed in its center. Sometimes wafers have the form of two watchglass-shaped disks of pasty material, which are made to adhere by moistening their edges, the powder being placed in the hollow between the two.
- To attach by means of a wafer or wafers.
- To seal or close by means of a wafer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
- n. thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
- n. a small thin crisp cake or cookie
The term wafer refers to the general shape of the tumblers.
Can you see the thin wafer cookie and the yummy Nutella in the middle?
He walked over and picked up the thin wafer of plastic and brushed bits of dried glue and plastic scraps from it.
REC receives NOK 370 million for terminating long term wafer sales contract Sandvika, November 3, 2011: Reference is made to the third quarter report, where REC is expecting to recognize income from termination of long term wafer contracts in the fourth quarter 2011.
REC said it expected income of some 400 million crowns in the fourth quarter related to the termination of other long-term wafer sales contracts.
SunPower reports fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. is getting a 3% boost after announcing a 4,400 MW long-term wafer supply agreement with GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited.
However, this advantage is not enough to offset the pressure on wafer prices, which forced it to amend one of its long-term wafer supply agreements.
In the mean time, whenever you want to send a note that shall not be opened by the bearer, put your trust neither in wafer nor wax, but twist it as I twist mine.
Signed 14 long-term wafer supply agreements during the year, achieving a sales backlog of over 14 GW through 2018.
So, you've got a pretty significant multiplier differential and so you would have to have a pretty significant reduction in spot poly pricing for to remotely start achieving or approaching our long-term wafer pricing.