From en.wiktionary.org:
[Silicon]
** English
[en] [wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [sĭl'ĭkən] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [sĭl'ĭkŏn′]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] as a modification of the earlier name [en], from the stem of [en] + [en]
from [en].
**** Noun
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1. [en] [en] A nonmetallic element ( _symbol_ Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2007-09-11 | author=John Markoff | title=Redefining the Architecture of Memory | work=w:The New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html
|passage=His idea is to stand billions of ultrafine wire loops around the edge
of a SILICON chip — hence the name racetrack — and use electric current to
slide infinitesimally small magnets up and down along each of the wires to be
read and written as digital ones and
zeros.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109034838/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html}}
1. [en] A single atom of this element.
***** Usage notes
Do not confuse _silicon_ with [en].
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en|Cwm Silicon|silicon copper |silicon burning|silicon curtain|silicon
monoxide|silicon nitride|silicon planet|silicon rubber|silicon tet|silicon
tetrabromide|silicon-controlled rectifier|ekasilicon |ferrosilicon|silicon
oxycarbide |float-zone silicon |lithium-drifted silicon detector |polysilicon
|silico- |silicon-28 |silicon-29 |silicon-30 |silicon alkoxide |Silicon
Alley|cuprosilicon|disilicon|nanosilicon|nonsilicon|organosilicon|radiosilicon|silicene|silician|silicide|Silicon
Roundabout|Siliconite|siliconlike|silicyne|silsesquioxane|silundum|tetrasilicon|zincsilite
|silicon-based|sima |silicon carbide |silicon chip |silicon controlled
rectifier |silicon dioxide |silicon disk |silicon ester |Silicon Fen |Silicon
Forest |silicon germanide|silicon bronze |silicon germanium |Silicon Glen
|Silicon Hills |silicon hydride |silicon iron |siliconise,siliconize |silicon
oxide |silicon photonics |Silicon Prairie |Silicon Sentier |silicon shield
|silicon steel |silicon tetrachloride |silicon tetrafluoride |Silicon Valley
|Silicon Wadi |silicon wafer |strained silicon}}
***** Related terms
{{col4|en|silane |silex |silica |silicate |silice |siliceous,silicious
|silici- |silicic |siliciferous |silicified |silicify
|silicisation,silicization |silico- |silicone |silicosis |silicotic}}
***** Translations
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- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Corsican: [co]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [professional jargon]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lingala: [ln]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Low German: [nds]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Santali: [sat]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
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- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
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*** Etymology 2
From the silicon chips used in computers.
**** Noun
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1. [en] Computing .
2. [en] A computer processor .
3. [en] .
***** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:WebMineral]
- [R:mindat]
[en]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [ro] silicone
**** Declension
[ro-noun-m]
*** Noun
[n]
1. [ro] breast implant
**** Declension
[pl=silicoane]
**** Related terms
- [ro]
** Welsh
[cy] [lang=cy]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [cy], a modification of [en], from [cy].
*** Pronunciation
- [cy]
- [cy]
*** Noun
[m]
1. silicon
*** Further reading
- [R:cy:GPC]
[cy]