thin film

noun

a film of material only a few microns thick, deposited on a substrate, as in the technology for making integrated circuits.

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CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!

How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

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Origin of thin film

First recorded in 1955–60

OTHER WORDS FROM thin film

thin-film, adjective

Words nearby thin film

thimphu, thin, thin as a rail, thin client, thin edge of the wedge, thin film, thin on top, thin register, thin section, thin-film, thin-layer chromatography

British Dictionary definitions for thin-film

thin-film

adjective

(of an electronic component, device, or circuit) composed of one or more extremely thin layers of metal, semiconductor, etc, deposited on a ceramic or glass substratethin-film capacitor

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