plural wafers
1
a
: a thin crisp cake, candy, or cracker
b
: a round thin piece of unleavened bread used in the celebration of the Eucharist
2
: an adhesive disk of dried paste with added coloring matter used as a seal
3
a
: a thin disk or ring resembling a wafer and variously used (as for a valve or diaphragm)
b
: a thin slice of semiconductor (such as silicon) used as a base for an electronic component or circuit
wafer-like
adjective
or less commonly waferlike
wafer-like cookies
a wafer-like electronic sensor
wafered; wafering
ˈwā-f(ə-)riŋ 
1
: to seal, close, or fasten with a wafer
2
: to divide (something, such as a silicon rod) into wafers
Examples of wafer in a Sentence
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Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
In another, a machine lifts a pack of wafers to the ceiling and moves it around the facility.
—Eric Cheung, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
Made fresh several times a week, the Student Kiss is a praline mixture consisting of truffle-nougat-noisette cream on a fine wafer crisp and then covered with dark chocolate.
—Yolanda Evans, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
Chen started working in the semiconductor industry after getting her Master’s degree in 1996, much of it at Lam Research, a U.S. wafer fabrication company.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 11 Feb. 2024
According to Hurt, the part of the cake that burns away is wafer paper, while the image that is revealed is made from an edible image that is more like a chewy fondant.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
The other—typically a micromachined silicon wafer substrate—is thicker and more rigid.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2024
The classic chocolate Oreo cookies sandwich a layer of chocolate creme and wafer crumbs.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
The top image is printed on wafer paper — a thinner, flammable product — and finished with another iced border.
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
How To Make Banana Pudding Cheesecake With an impressive ring of vanilla wafers around the edge of the cheesecake, and decadent filling, no one will know how quickly this dessert came together.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
Tips for the Best Banana Pudding Cheesecake For the best banana pudding cheesecake, keep these tips in mind:
Use the crust: Press the crust lightly up the sides of the pan to give the ring of vanilla wafers stability.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
Layer half of vanilla wafers in an 8-inch square baking dish.
—Rebecca Lang, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
The blue-and-white Intel theme is only the start of this nifty mod, which resembles an Intel CPU wafer just off the fab.
—John Burek, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
Instead, the lasers on the wafer are undercut so that they are attached to the source wafer only by small tethers.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
LAM Research, a company that supplies wafer fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry saw its last stock split in 2020.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 June 2022
Highly energy efficient and often wafer thin, OLEDs are the technology of choice in high-end cellphone displays and televisions.
—New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
Noun
China controls over 80 percent of manufacturing and makes over 95 percent of the world’s silicon wafers, a key component.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
In another, a machine lifts a pack of wafers to the ceiling and moves it around the facility.
—Eric Cheung, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
Made fresh several times a week, the Student Kiss is a praline mixture consisting of truffle-nougat-noisette cream on a fine wafer crisp and then covered with dark chocolate.
—Yolanda Evans, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
Chen started working in the semiconductor industry after getting her Master’s degree in 1996, much of it at Lam Research, a U.S. wafer fabrication company.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 11 Feb. 2024
According to Hurt, the part of the cake that burns away is wafer paper, while the image that is revealed is made from an edible image that is more like a chewy fondant.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
The other—typically a micromachined silicon wafer substrate—is thicker and more rigid.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2024
The classic chocolate Oreo cookies sandwich a layer of chocolate creme and wafer crumbs.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
The top image is printed on wafer paper — a thinner, flammable product — and finished with another iced border.
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
Verb
This is a horror movie purposefully set up to court both types of viewers, and very much wants to have its communion wafer and eat it, too.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
How To Make Banana Pudding Cheesecake With an impressive ring of vanilla wafers around the edge of the cheesecake, and decadent filling, no one will know how quickly this dessert came together.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
Tips for the Best Banana Pudding Cheesecake For the best banana pudding cheesecake, keep these tips in mind:
Use the crust: Press the crust lightly up the sides of the pan to give the ring of vanilla wafers stability.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
Layer half of vanilla wafers in an 8-inch square baking dish.
—Rebecca Lang, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
The blue-and-white Intel theme is only the start of this nifty mod, which resembles an Intel CPU wafer just off the fab.
—John Burek, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
Instead, the lasers on the wafer are undercut so that they are attached to the source wafer only by small tethers.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
LAM Research, a company that supplies wafer fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry saw its last stock split in 2020.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 June 2022
Highly energy efficient and often wafer thin, OLEDs are the technology of choice in high-end cellphone displays and televisions.
—New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
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