Word: salicide
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: sa
li
cide
Definition: An electrical contact made from a silicide whose formation does not require lithographic patterning processes, i.e. it is "self-aligned"
Morphemes:
Affix: self
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
Affix: align
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To form a line; to fall into line.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: alignier
Language: fro
Decoded: alignier
Meaning: alignier
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.
Affix: silicon
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A single atom of this element.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: silex
Language: la
Decoded: silex
Meaning: flint, silica
Affix: -on
Language: en
Decoded: -on
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming nouns denoting subatomic particles quanta molecular units or substances .
Affix: -ide
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Any of a group of several elements - lanthanide.