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Solid-state

Definition: Solid-state

Solid-state

Adjective

1. Characteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids.

2. (electronics) consisting of semiconductor materials and components and related devices.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Solid-state

Specialty definitions using "solid-state": CCD, CCD imager, charge-coupled device imagerdepletion MOS field effect transistor, depletion MOST, diffusing barrier, diffusion barrier, diffusion under epitaxial layerElectrocardiography, Ambulatory, electrochromic display, enhancement MOS field-effect transistor, enhancement MOSTion barrierLASER TECHNICIANmesa technologyphosphate glass, Photovoltaic Device, pulverised source, pulverized sourcescanning radiometer, silicon source, solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy, solid-state storage device. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Solid-state

DomainTitle

Books

  • Solid-State Sensor & Actuator Workshop, 2000 (reference)

  • Physics of Solid-State Laser Materials (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Series) (reference)

  • Multinuclear Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Inorganic Materials (reference)

  • Electronic Conduction in Oxides (Springer Series in Solid-State Science, 94) (reference)

  • Field Theories for Low-Dimensional Condensed Matter Systems: Spin Systems and Strongly Correlated Electrons (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Solid-state

"Solid-state" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Solid-state" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)92.31%12101,599
Noun (singular)7.69%1339,140
                    Total100.00%13N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Solid-state

Language Translations for "solid-state"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

固". (various references)

   

Danish

  

lithium-drevne silicium og germanium halvlederdetektorer ( faststofdetektorer ) (lithium-drifted Silicon and Germanium solid-state detectors), fast-fase-epitaksi (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

met lithium gedoopte silicium- en germaniumhalfgeleider-detector (lithium-drifted Silicon and Germanium solid-state detectors), halfgeleider-epitaxi (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kiinteän olomuodon epitaksia (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy). (various references)

   

French

  

détecteurs solides au silicium et germanium dopés au lithium (lithium-drifted Silicon and Germanium solid-state detectors), épitaxie en phase solide (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy). (various references)

   

German

  

kontaktlose. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επίταξη στερεάς κατάστασης (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy), Ανιχνευτές στερεάς κατάστασης πυριτίου και γερμανίου με προσμίξεις λιθίου. (lithium-drifted Silicon and Germanium solid-state detectors). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félvezetõ eszköz (semi-conductor device, solid-state device). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rivelatori a circuiti stampati al Si e Ge drogati al litio (lithium-drifted Silicon and Germanium solid-state detectors), fisica di solidi (solid-state physics), epitassia in fase solida (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olid-statesay

   

Portuguese

  

epitaxia do estado sólido (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy), detectores sólidos de germânio-lítio e sílico-lítio (lithium-drifted Silicon and Germanium solid-state detectors). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

транзисторный, полупроводниковый. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

epitasia de estado sólido (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy), detectores semiconductores a base de silicio y germanio dopado con litio (lithium-drifted Silicon and Germanium solid-state detectors). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

halvledarepitaxi (solid phase epitaxy, solid-state epitaxy), fasta tillståndets fysik (solid-state physics). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

katı durum kimyası (solid-state chemistry), katı cisimler fiziği (solid-state physics). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Solid-state

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-o-s-s-t-t"

-1 letter: diastoles, sodalites, stolidest, totalised, totalises.

-2 letters: altoists, assoiled, diastole, distaste, isolated, isolates, isoleads, saltiest, slatiest, sodalist, sodalite, solidest, staidest, toadless, totalise.

-3 letters: aidless, aldoses, altoist, delists, desalts, details, dilates, disseat, dotiest, dottels, dottles, iodates, isolate, isolead, lassoed, latests, litotes, saltest, salties, slatted, slitted, slotted, solated, solates, stalest, stilted, toadies, toasted, toilets, totaled.

-4 letters: aisled.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-o-s-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: anecdotalists, editorialists, sacerdotalist, traditionless.

 

+4 letters: dermatologists, diabetologists, dissertational, documentalists, melodramatists, sacerdotalists.

 

+5 letters: dialectologists, dictatorialness, educationalists, redistillations, sophisticatedly, stadtholdership, ultramodernists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Solid-state


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 6C 69 64 2D 73 74 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100100 00101101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#100 &#45 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 006C 0069 0064 002D 0073 0074 0061 0074 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5381787570158586678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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