plural wafers
1
a
: a thin crisp cake, candy, or cracker
b
: a round thin piece of unleavened bread used in the celebration of the Eucharist
2
: an adhesive disk of dried paste with added coloring matter used as a seal
3
a
: a thin disk or ring resembling a wafer and variously used (as for a valve or diaphragm)
b
: a thin slice of semiconductor (such as silicon) used as a base for an electronic component or circuit
wafer-like
adjective
or less commonly waferlike
wafer-like cookies
a wafer-like electronic sensor
wafered; wafering
ˈwā-f(ə-)riŋ 
1
: to seal, close, or fasten with a wafer
2
: to divide (something, such as a silicon rod) into wafers
Examples of wafer in a Sentence
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Michael Kan, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
It’s then dipped in yellow icing and topped with white icing swirls and a wafer cookie.
—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
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Noun
To create the screen, LG placed the OLED panel on a silicon wafer substrate rather than a glass or plastic backplane.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
It’s then dipped in yellow icing and topped with white icing swirls and a wafer cookie.
—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
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“Wafer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wafer. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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