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

1 sense of silicon carbide

Sense 1
silicon carbide -- (an extremely hard blue-black crystalline compound (SiC) used as an abrasive and a heat refractory material; crystals of silicon carbide can be used as semiconductors)
       => carbide -- (a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element)