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Synonyms for transistors

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tran-zis-ter
Phonetic Transcription : trænˈzɪs tər

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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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