You searched for: “hole
hole, holistic, whole
hole (HOHL) (noun)
1. An opening into or through something: Edgar fixed the hole in the roof while his wife fixed the hole in his sock.
2. A situation in which someone, or something, is gone or missing: When Mildred's daughter went to college, it left a big hole in the lives of their parents; in other words, they missed their daughter very much.
holistic (hoh LIS tik) (adjective)
Relating to or concerned with complete, or whole, systems rather than with individual parts: Marge and Danny say school officials need to take a more holistic approach to improving their schools.

Holistic medicine attempts to treat both the whole mind and body.

whole (HOHL) (adjective)
1. Descriptive of something which is full or complete: The whole day, from morning until evening, was spent trying to find a job.
2. Complete or full; not lacking or leaving out any part: The community center offers a whole range of programs.

The whole hole must be considered when using holistic analysis.

More possibly related word entries
A unit related to: “hole
(Latin: bore, pierce, make holes; hole, holes; opening, openings,)
(Greek: door, gate, entrance; orifice, an aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity; indicating the portal vein)
Word Entries containing the term: “hole
electron hole
1. A vacant position in a crystal left by the absence of an electron; especially, a position in a semiconductor that acts as a carrier of positive electric charges.
2. In a semiconductor, the electron vacancy in the valence (combining power of atoms) band that occurs when an electron jumps the gap from the filled valence band to the empty conduction band.

It serves as a positive charge carrier, allowing electrons deeper in the band to move into the vacated area.

A valence is the combining power of atoms or groups measured by the number of electrons the atom or group will receive, give up, or share in forming a compound.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 49) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 4)
electron-hole droplets, electron hole droplets
1. An electronic excitation, observed at low cryogenic temperatures in silicon and germanium, in which an electron-hole Fermi liquid is formed in an unstable condition.
2. A process by which a molecule is excited from a low-lying electronic state to a higher energy electronic state as observed in germanium and silicon at sufficiently low cryogenic temperatures.

It is associated with a liquid-gas phase transition of the charge carriers, and consists of regions of conducting electron-hole Fermi liquid coexisting with regions of insulating exciton gas.

This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 57) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 6)
electron-hole pair, electron hole pair
A conduction electron in a conduction band and an accompanying electron hole in the valence band, that result when an electron jumps the gap in an intrinsic semiconductor.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 57) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 6)
electron-hole recombination, electron hole recombination
A process in which a hole is combined again with an electron within a doped semiconductor (a process where impurities are added to a semiconductor), accompanied by a release of energy, normally in the form of radiation.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 57) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 6)
empty hole
This entry is located in the following unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 7)
ozone hole
A term for the recently observed thinning of the ozone layer over the Antarctic region during the spring months.

The ozone hole has grown in size and annual length of existence over the past decades.

This entry is located in the following unit: ozono-, ozon-, ozoni-, ozo-, oz- + (page 1)
Word Entries at Get Words: “hole
hole
The vacancy where an electron would normally exist in a solid; behaves like a positively charged particle.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 10)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “hole
black hole, black-hole, blackhole
1. A region of space in which mass is packed so densely that (according to Einstein's general theory of relativity) nothing, not even light, can escape.
2. An object whose matter has become so condensed that its gravitational field is striking enough to prevent light escaping from it.
3. In theory, a collapsed object (perhaps a massive star) whose gravitational field is so strong that under most circumstances no light or matter can escape.

The term was invented by the American physicist John Wheeler in 1968 (some sources say 1967). Within a few years, other usages had expanded the phrase for other applications; such as, to describe everything from large budget deficits to gaping legal loopholes.

The "black hole" is also used as a verb. In technological circles, to "black-hole" means to cut off data going to and coming from an address, particularly an address used by a spammer. This usage has been around since about 1997.

This entry is located in the following unit: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 5)