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US
/tɹænˈzɪstɝ/
]
[ UK /tɹænzˈɪstɐ/ ]
[ UK /tɹænzˈɪstɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a semiconductor device capable of amplification
How To Use transistor In A Sentence
- Whose miniaturized and siliconized and transistorized little bits of magic lie at the very heart of your defensive systems? The Edge of Madness
- The firm excels at producing cheap transistor radios.
- Transistors, which next year will contain features measuring 45 nanometres, or billionths of a metre, have become so small that they leak substantial amounts of electricity.
- Lots of times words get perverted, too -- computer scientists who talk of "synchronous processes" have no idea what the actual definition in English of "synchronous" is -- they think it means "synchronized" -- and when they call putting millions of transistors on a tiny chip and call it Very Large Scale Integration, they're turned the phrase "large scale" on its very head. My mechanic Steve
- About every 18 months, the number of transistors in computer chips doubles.
- The display pixel electrodes are connected to source electrodes of said thin film transistors in one-to-one correspondence.
- The new transistor, called the nanoparticle organic memory field-effect transistor, or NOMFET for short, does it with just one. Livescience.com
- The A1210-A1214 Hall-effect latches include the following on a single silicon chip: voltage regulator, Hall-voltage generator, small-signal amplifier, Schmitt trigger, and NMOS output transistor.
- I'd just been given a transistor radio, and I'd found Radio One.
- Water sells for a high premium, electricity is a memory, and a transistor radio is the only contact to anyone else outside their temporary shelter.