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- noun The production of microwave oscillations when a constant voltage in excess of a critical level is applied to opposite faces of a semiconductor.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After John Battiscombe Gunn, (1928–2008), Egyptian-born British physicist.]
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