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EPITAXY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epitaxy mean?
• EPITAXY (noun)
The noun EPITAXY has 1 sense:
1. growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate
Familiarity information: EPITAXY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("epitaxy" is a kind of...):
growing ((electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state)
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