metalloid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An element, such as silicon or germanium, intermediate in properties between that of a metal and a nonmetal; especially an elemental semiconductor.
2. isim The metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; applied to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.

   “By some they [metals of the alkalies] were called metalloids; by some their simple nature was objected to”

3. isim A nonmetal.
4. sıfat Of or relating to the metalloids.
5. sıfat Characteristic of the metal music genre.

   “Graham Massey of 808 State turns a Björkian moan into a vibrating siren and powers his strangely metalloid version of "Army Of Me" with it; the Brodsky String Quartet turns "Hyperballad" into a stately 3-D chess game.”