alloyed junction

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a semiconductor junction used in some junction transistors and formed by alloying metal contacts, functioning as emitter and collector regions, to a wafer of semiconductor that acts as the base regionCompare diffused junction

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allow for, alloxan, alloxuremia, alloxuria, alloy, alloyed junction, alloy steel, allozyme, all-pass, all-points bulletin, Allport

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The vehicle landed and traveled another 82 feet before striking a telephone junction box.
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Her friend asked her to meet her at a nearby junction, but disappeared.
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It was found afterwards that the rebels meant to fight the two British forces in detail before they could effect a junction.
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The upper block was left a little thicker, the junction or root of the neck necessitating this.
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It weighed scarce one maes, or nine diezmos, of the fineness of eighteen or nineteen carats, alloyed with silver.
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Parliament had sanctioned a junction, but not such a junction, the Midland said, as it was proposed to make.
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Trieste and Grz were taken; the junction with Marmont was speedily effected, and the combined forces hurried on towards Vienna.
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