Synonyms for transistors

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tran-zis-ter

Phonetic Transcription : trænˈzɪs tər

Top 10 synonyms for transistors

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Définition of transistors

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 :

He ducked, as a complete bank of transistors zoomed past his head.
Extract from : « We're Friends, Now » by Henry Hasse

But twenty tons of transistors could be in plain sight and we'd never know it.
Extract from : « The Scarlet Lake Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin

He snapped open the back of the unit and studied the maze of transistors, resistors, and capacitators.
Extract from : « The Quantum Jump » by Robert Wicks

Remember how he went to all the trouble of building a pentode vacuum tube for a job that could have been done by transistors.
Extract from : « Anything You Can Do » by Gordon Randall Garrett

He was reasonably sure by now that they had no transistors, signal generators, frequency meters or whatever else he could demand.
Extract from : « The Sky Is Falling » by Lester del Rey

But after learning to deal with electron holes in transistors, this was elementary study for Hanson.
Extract from : « The Sky Is Falling » by Lester del Rey

Bud pointed to a small electronic chassis on the workbench, studded with a tangle of transistors, diodes, and condensers.
Extract from : « Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung » by Victor Appleton

Anyway, a quarter of a million is a lot of money, and even at two hundred bucks each the transistors would make quite a bundle.
Extract from : « The Scarlet Lake Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin

"Strange that anyone would steal a whole supply of transistors," he commented.
Extract from : « The Scarlet Lake Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin

For one thing, theft of the transistors put a new light on the Earthman's activities.
Extract from : « The Scarlet Lake Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin

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