GERMANIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does germanium mean? 

• GERMANIUM (noun)
  The noun GERMANIUM has 1 sense:

1. a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite

  Familiarity information: GERMANIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERMANIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 32; Ge; germanium

Hypernyms ("germanium" is a kind of...):

chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)

semiconducting material; semiconductor (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)

Holonyms ("germanium" is a substance of...):

argyrodite (a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur)

germanite (a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide)

 Context examples 

Other ingredients in green tea extract-based antioxidant supplement include dry cinnamon extract, germanium, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate, arginine, cysteine, malic acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), glycyrrhizinic acid, glycine, glucosamine, pyridoxal (vitamin B6), calcium pantothenate (vitamin B5), folic acid, cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12).

(Green Tea Extract-based Antioxidant Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)