semivacancy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A vacancy defect in which two adjacent lattice sites are unoccupied and an atom occupies the interstitial site between the two vacant sites.

Word forms

semivacancy semivacancies

Etymology

From semi- + vacancy.

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