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semivacancy

semivacancy noun: a vacancy defect in which two adjacent lattice sites are unoccupied and an atom occupies the interstitial site between the two vacant sites.

Noun

semivacancy (plural semivacancies)

  1. A vacancy defect in which two adjacent lattice sites are unoccupied and an atom occupies the interstitial site between the two vacant sites.
    • The semivacancies are separated by a variable number of Ge adatoms in metastable T₄ positions and can diffuse or eventually merge back into a single vacancy.2008, Edmund G. Seebauer, Meredith C. Kratzer, Charged Semiconductor Defects: Structure, Thermodynamics and Diffusion, page 219
    • In the undistorted configurations both a divacancy and a semivacancy pair belong to the symmetry point group D3d .2012, D. Shaw, Atomic Diffusion in Semiconductors, page 234

Forms of semivacancy

pluralsemivacancies

Origin of semivacancy

From semi- + vacancy.

Questions about semivacancy

What does semivacancy mean?
Semivacancy means a vacancy defect in which two adjacent lattice sites are unoccupied and an atom occupies the interstitial site between the two vacant sites.
What part of speech is semivacancy?
Semivacancy is a noun.
What is the plural of semivacancy?
The plural of semivacancy is semivacancies.

Words near semivacancy in the dictionary

  1. semiurban
  2. semiurgic
  3. semiurgically
  4. semiurgy
  5. semivacancies
  6. semivacancy
  7. semivacant
  8. semivalid
  9. semivalue
  10. semivalues
  11. semivalvate

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