germanium

From Latin Germānia (“Germany”) + -ium.

• (US) enPR: jûrmā'nēəm, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɚˈmeɪni.əm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

germanium (countable and uncountable, plural germaniums)

1. A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group.
   • 1959 March, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. locomotive orders”, in Trains Illustrated, page 118:

     This equipment, which includes transformers, germanium rectifiers and smoothing apparatus, has been designed to allow the existing electric multiple-unit traction motors to operate on rectified alternating current.

   • 1970, James W[alter] Mayer, Lennart Eriksson, John A[rthur] Davies, “General Features of Ion Implantation”, in Ion Implantation in Semiconductors: Silicon and Germanium, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 5:

     The isolated disordered regions and the amorphous layer have widely different anneal behavior. In the case of germanium and silicon, the isolated disordered regions anneal at moderate temperatures of approximately 200° and 300° C, respectively. The amorphous layers also anneal in a characteristic fashion, but at appreciably higher temperatures, i.e., at approximately 600° C in silicon and 400° C in germanium.

2. (countable) An atom of this element.

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germanium (uncountable)

1. germanium

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛrmaːnɪjum]

germanium n

1. germanium (nonmetallic chemical element with an atomic number of 32)

germanium n (singular definite germaniummet, not used in plural form)

1. germanium
   • 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse, →ISBN, page 74:

     Germanium er en såkaldt halvleder.

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   • 1886, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi samt disse videnskabers anvendelse:

     Nærmere Undersøgelser have imidlertid viist, at Germanium er tetravalent, ...

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   • 2004, IT-ord 2005, Libris Media A/S, →ISBN, page 64:

     Silicium og germanium er de to vigtigste halvledende materialer.

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Borrowed from German Germanium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɣɛrˈmaː.ni.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: ger‧ma‧ni‧um
• Rhymes: -aːniʏm

germanium n (uncountable)

1. germanium (chemical element) [from 1886]

Internationalism (see English germanium).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡermɑnium/, [ˈɡe̞rmɑ̝ˌnium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): ger‧ma‧ni‧um

germanium

1. germanium

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.ma.njɔm/

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germanium m (uncountable)

1. germanium

• “germanium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡerˈmaː.ni.um/, [ɡɛrˈmäːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒerˈma.ni.um/, [d͡ʒerˈmäːnium]

germānium n (genitive germāniī); second declension

1. germanium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• germanium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
    

• IPA^(key): [ʝɛʁˈmaː˨ɲɔ˧m]

germanium n

1. (uncountable) germanium
2. A part of germanium

From English germanium, from Latin Germānia + -ium.

• IPA^(key): [ɡə(r)maniom], [ɡə(r)maniəm], [d͡ʒə(r)maniəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

germanium

1. germanium (chemical element)

• IPA^(key): /jɛrˈmɑːnɪɵm/

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germanium n (uncountable)

1. germanium