Found 2 items, similar to germanium.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: germanium germanium n : a brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite [syn: Ge, atomic number 32 ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: germanium Ekasilicon \Ek`a*sil"i*con\, n. [Skr. [=e]ka one + E. silicon.] (Chem.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor. [1913 Webster]