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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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