| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Ovshinsky effect |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ov·shin·sky effect |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   v-sh n sk , ôv- |
| NOUN: | The effect by which a specific glassy thin film switches from a nonconductor to a semiconductor upon application of a minimum voltage. | | ETYMOLOGY: | After Stanford Robert Ovshinsky (born 1922), American inventor.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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