SEMICONDUCTORS Synonyms

• an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

• a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

• an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to

• the boundary line encompassing an area or object

• (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals

• a racetrack for automobile races

• movement once around a course

• make a circuit

• a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier

• a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction

• electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

• a semiconductor device capable of amplification

• a 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

• a conductor made with semiconducting material

• a conductor made with semiconducting material