Synonyms for transistor

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tran-zis-ter

Phonetic Transcription : trænˈzɪs tər

Top 10 synonyms for transistor

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Définition of transistor

Origin : "small electronic device," 1948, from transfer + resistor, so called because it transfers an electrical current across a resistor. Said to have been coined by U.S. electrical engineer John Robinson Pierce (1910-2002) of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., where the device was invented in 1947. It that took over many functions of the vacuum tube. Transistor radio is first recorded 1958.

As in personal stereo : noun portable music player
As in electronics : noun electronic devices

Example sentences :

There was a miniature pocket radio—a transistor radio—on top of the short wave cabinet.
Extract from : « Operation Terror » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

The electrical properties of this odd specimen are unusual and interesting and could lead to a new type of transistor.
Extract from : « The Atomic Fingerprint » by Bernard Keisch

The PDP-3 circuitry is the static type using saturating transistor flip-flops and, for the most part, transistor switch elements.
Extract from : « Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) » by Digital Equipment Corporation

The transistor is still a critical item in electronics and production isn't up to demand, especially for special designs.
Extract from : « The Scarlet Lake Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin

I thought she was joking, and we went and listened to somebody's transistor, and then I went back to the lab.
Extract from : « Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

Keeter seemed to hesitate for a minute, then shrugged his shoulders and dropped the transistor into the general's sweating palm.
Extract from : « Membership Drive » by Murray F. Yaco

"Not at all, not at all," said a small, white haired man who had finally wrested the transistor from Beemish.
Extract from : « Membership Drive » by Murray F. Yaco

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