1. a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite; [syn: germanium, Ge, atomic number 32]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
atomic number 32
n 1: a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting
metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs
in germanite and argyrodite [syn: germanium, Ge,
atomic number 32]