boule
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1. boule - Noun
2. boule - Verb
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Alt. of Boulework
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At first no one spoke. Boule de Suif dared not even raise her eyes. She felt at once indignant with her neighbors, and humiliated at having yielded to the Prussian into whose arms they had so hypocritically cast her.
Ekklesiazousai 378-9 The Council/The Boule main In 594 BC Solon is said to have created a boule of 400 to guide the work of the assembly.
He was so successful that he asked the city council (boule) in session for support at public expense, the quid pro quo being that he would make the city famous.
The boule is then sliced with a wafer saw ( wire saw ) and polished to form wafers. citation The size of wafers for photovoltaics is 100–200 mm square and the thickness is 200–300 μm.
"At Rayton, we use a well-known technique of growing a large single crystalline boule (the ingot) and then exfoliating a thin 3-micron-layer of silicon off of it.
Then we plop it out on the counter, and shape it into a boule.