hole model

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hole model - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  hole model
  
     <electronics> A model of semiconductor behaviour in which
     donors contribute a positive charge equal in magnitude to
     the charge of an electron, and acceptors contribute space
     for such a charge within the crystal lattice.  Honored by
     history well before electrons were discovered and described,
     much of electronics, especially at the engineering level,
     continues to consider current as flowing from positive to
     negative.
  
     (1995-10-05)