WAFER


Meaning of WAFER in English

■ noun

1》 a thin, light, crisp sweet biscuit.

2》 a thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist.

3》 a disc of red paper stuck on a legal document as a seal.

↘ historical a small disc of dried paste formerly used for fastening letters or holding papers together.

4》 Electronics a very thin slice of a semiconductor crystal used as the substrate for solid-state circuitry.

Derivatives

~y adjective

Origin

ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. var. of OFr. gaufre (see goffer ), from Mid. Low Ger. wāfel 'waffle'; cf. waffle 2 .

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