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☆ Silicon Valley

a valley in California, southeast of San Francisco, a center of high-technology activities, esp. those involving microelectronics

Etymology: after the principal material used for electronic chips

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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