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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 substrateplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EPITAXY (noun)


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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