wafer
/ˈweɪfər/
noun
- A very thin, crisp, flat cake or biscuit, often sweetened and sometimes filled with cream or chocolate.
- She ate a vanilla wafer with her afternoon tea.
- He stacked the wafers carefully to make a dessert tower.
- The ice cream sandwich had two chocolate wafers on the outside.
- A thin, flat piece of something, especially a semiconductor material used in making electronic circuits.
- The factory produces silicon wafers for computer chips.
- Each wafer can be cut into hundreds of tiny processors.
- The engineer inspected the wafer under a microscope for defects.
- A thin, round piece of unleavened bread used in the Christian Eucharist or Communion.
- During the service, the congregation received the consecrated wafer.
- The priest placed the wafer on the communicant's tongue.
- The wafer symbolizes the body of Christ in many Christian traditions.