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light-emitting_diode

light-emitting diode

English

Alternative forms

LED

Noun

light-emitting diode ‎(plural light-emitting diodes)

(physics) a rectifying semiconductor device which converts electrical energy into electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength in or near the visible spectrum of light.

Translations

a rectifying semiconductor device

Catalan: díode emissor de llum m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發光二極管 (zh), 发光二极管 (zh) ‎(fāguāng èrjíguǎn)
Danish: lysdiode c
Esperanto: lum-eliganta diodo
Finnish: (colloquial) ledi (fi), valodiodi (fi)
French: diode électroluminescente (fr) f
German: Leuchtdiode (de) f
Hungarian: fénykibocsátó dióda
Icelandic: ljósdíóða f, ljóstvistur m, ljóstvískaut n

Japanese: 発光ダイオード ‎(hakkō daiōdo)
Korean: 발광 다이오드 ‎(balgwang daiodeu)
Malay: diod pemancar cahaya
Norwegian:

Bokmål: lysdiode m

Nynorsk: lysdiode m, ljosdiode m
Portuguese: díodo emissor de luz m
Russian: светоизлуча́ющий дио́д m ‎(svetoizlučájuščij diód), светодио́д (ru) m ‎(svetodiód)
Spanish: diodo emisor de luz m
Swedish: lysdiod (sv) c