Usually means: Element used in electronics, semiconductors.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. silicon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. silicon: Merriam-Webster
  3. silicon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. silicon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. silicon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. silicon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Silicon, silicon: Wordnik
  8. silicon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. silicon: Wiktionary
  10. silicon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. silicon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. silicon: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. silicon: Dictionary.com
  14. silicon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. silicon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SiliCon, Silicon (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Silicon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. silicon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. silicon: Rhymezone
  20. Silicon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. silicon: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. silicon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. silicon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. silicon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Silicon: World Wide Words
  26. Silicon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Silicon: Energy Dictionary
  3. silicon: Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. silicon: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. silicon: Netlingo
  3. silicon: CCI Computer
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Silicon (element), silicon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. silicon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Silicon (element), silicon: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silicon: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. SILICON: The Mineral Gallery
  3. Silicon: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. silicon: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silicon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. silicon: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. silicon: Electronics
  3. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  4. silicon: Glossary of Related Solar Power Terms
  5. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  6. Explosives (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See siliconing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
noun:  (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.
noun:  (slang) Computing.
noun:  (slang) A computer processor.
noun:  Abbreviation of silicon chip. [A wafer of silicon on which an integrated circuit has been built; a microchip]

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