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Definition of Wafer
Wa´fer | n. | 1. | | | 1. | (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. | | 2. | (Eccl.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church. | | 3. | An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, - used in sealing letters and other documents. | | 4. | Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; - a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits. | | v. t. | 1. | To seal or close with a wafer. |
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