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Where does “bandgap” come from?

Bandgap derives from English band and gap, where band comes from Middle English band, from Proto-Germanic bindaną meaning "to bind," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰendʰ-.

bandgap (English): The energy difference between two allowed ranges...

Definitions

  1. The energy difference between two allowed ranges...

Ancestry of “bandgap”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbandA strip of material used for strengthening or...
2Germanbandpast of binden
3Frenchbandeband, strip; stripe; strip
4Frenchlàthere; here, present
5Italianlàthere
6Spanishlathe; accusative of ella, ello , and usted ; her,...
7Portugueseláthere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
8GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
9Germana-MollA-minor
10Hungarianathe; this; that
11Frenchàto; on the, to; at
12Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
13Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
14LatinA—
15Etruscan𐌀—
16Ancient Greekᾱ̔—
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