transistor
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- noun
- /trænˈzɪstər/
- Specialized
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transistor
- The engineer explained how the transistor could amplify weak signals in electronic devices.
But what was the component that the transistor replaced?
- But what was the component that the transistor replaced?
- The fact that the transistor has gain and so forth.
- Using these methods, some graphene transistors have been built and been shown to work.
- Researchers build a transistor from a molecule and a few atoms.
- The other one won the Nobel Prize for Co inventing the transistor.
- I mean, your iPhone has billions of transistors.
- There was a crash program back then to miniaturize the transistor.
- We're now just at the edge of assembling the transistors to make the circuits.
- Look, the how many transistors are there in your laptop these days?
- But from that came the concept of the transistor, the integrated circuit.
Examples
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Ten or fifteen meters away, Ortiz's transistor radio played a transmission from Apollo 12.
Fiction book (2000) -
One fall, I was putting together a transistor radio, using a soldering iron in my dorm room.
Academic text (1993) -
You have a transistor radio, or you have one of those big sound systems?
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My transistor radio comes from far away
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But what was the component that the transistor replaced?
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But from that came the concept of the transistor, the integrated circuit.
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Look, the how many transistors are there in your laptop these days?
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As chips rise toward a billion transistors each, their processing power will rise even faster.
Academic text (1991) -
Cynthia also told the caseworker that she loved the old transistor radio she had as a young woman.
Academic text (2011) -
From his pants pocket, he pulled a brand-new transistor radio shaped like a gas pump.
Fiction book (2002)
Compounds
- Specialized
A small electronic device that controls electric current using an electric field
- Specialized
An electronic part made from special material that makes signals stronger or turns them on and off
- Specialized
A small electronic part with three layers that controls and increases electric current
Surface Forms
Etymology
Transistor was made from the words transfer ('to move across') and resistor ('a part that resists electricity'), so the name itself is a short blend of those ideas. Think of a transistor as a tiny part that moves or controls electrical flow, which is why it can switch or amplify signals.