to transistorize
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- verb
- /trænˈzɪstəˌraɪz/
- Archaic
- It's a nation of some 200 million transistorized, deodorized... whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies... totally unnecessary as human beings... and as replaceable as piston rods.
Examples
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And a miniature, transistorized version is installed in his neck.
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Gerston signified, and the messenger said, "Here you are," and touched Gerston's forehead with a transistorized forefinger.
Fiction book (1999) -
Place transistorized-radio-induction unit on the side of the junction box.
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Nothing was transistorized then; everything was still tubes and complicated circuitry, or at least my tape recorder.
Fiction book (1996) -
AT&T muffed the significance of the transistor once Bell Laboratories had discovered the effect, and only learned how to apply it to their own business when the Japanese came into the market with transistorized products!
Blog text (31) -
The engineer decided to transistorize the old amplifier to improve its performance.
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Companies began to transistorize their products in the 1960s, replacing heavy vacuum tubes with smaller transistors.
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With the goal of making devices more efficient, they aimed to transistorize all their analog circuits.
Surface Forms
Morphology
transistorize = transistor (transparent) = transistor + ize
The verb is formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to the noun 'transistor', meaning 'to make or equip with transistors', so the meaning is directly derivable.
Etymology
Transistorize comes from transistor and the verb ending -ize ('to make'). A transistor is a small electronic part whose name mixes the words 'transfer' and 'resistor', so to transistorize something is to 'make' it use transistors or to put transistors into a device.