Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun germanium

1 sense of germanium

Sense 1
germanium, Ge, atomic number 32 -- (a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite)
       => chemical element, element -- (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)
       => semiconductor, semiconducting material -- (a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities)