Silicon Valley

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. Originally, the region of the San Francisco Bay Area in which there were a high number of industries producing silicon chips; later extended to mean the entire concentration of high-tech businesses in this area. countable,informal,uncountable
    — The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.
  2. The tech industry, especially the American tech industry specifically. countable,metonymically,uncountable
  3. A tech industry cluster in another country, developed as a competitor to the original Silicon Valley. countable
    — The belief in the early 1980s among many European pundits that a series of European Silicon Valleys could be developed before the end of the decade flew in the face of all the United States evidence.

词形变化

Silicon Valleys plural Silicone Valley alternative,misspelling

词源

From Silicon Valley USA, the title of a series of articles appearing in 1971 in Electronic News by the journalist Don Hoefler, from silicon, an important element in semiconductor manufacturing + valley from Santa Clara Valley, the area where many of these industries are located.
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