transistor

See also: Transistor and transístor

Contents

English

Etymology

Blend of transfer +‎ resistor. Said to have been coined by John Robinson Pierce in 1947.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪstə(r)

Noun

transistor (plural transistors)

1. A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.
2. (dated, informal) A transistor radio.

Derived terms

• FET
• TFT
• UJT
• silicon planar epitaxial transistor
• transistorize
• transistorized
• transistor radio

Translations

solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals

• Arabic: تْرَانْزِسْتُور‎ m (tranzistur)
• Catalan: transistor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電晶體 (din⁶ zing¹ tai²), 晶體管 (zing¹ tai² gun²)

  Mandarin: 晶體管 (zh), 晶体管 (zh) (jīngtǐguǎn), (Taiwan) 電晶體, 电晶体 (diànjīngtǐ)

• Czech: tranzistor m
• Dutch: transistor (nl) m
• Estonian: transistor (et)
• Finnish: transistori (fi)
• French: transistor (fr) m
• Galician: transistor m
• German: Transistor (de) m
• Greek: κρυσταλλοτρίοδος (el) f (krystallotríodos), τρανζίστορ (el) n (tranzístor)
• Hungarian: tranzisztor (hu)

• Icelandic: smári (is) m
• Japanese: トランジスタ (ja) (toranjisuta)
• Korean: 트랜지스터 (ko) (teuraenjiseuteo)
• Maori: whitiārai
• Polish: tranzystor (pl) m
• Portuguese: transístor (pt) m
• Russian: транзи́стор (ru) m (tranzístor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: транзистор m

  Roman: tranzistor (sh) m

• Spanish: transistor (es) m
• Swedish: transistor (sv) c
• Tagalog: saligwil
• Vietnamese: bóng bán dẫn

small portable radio

• Catalan: transistor (ca) m
• Czech: tranzistor m, tranďák m
• Estonian: transistor (et)
• Galician: transistor m

• Italian: radiolina (it) f
• Russian: транзи́стор (ru) m (tranzístor), радиоприёмник (ru) m (radioprijómnik), приёмник (ru) m (prijómnik)
• Swedish: transistor (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} transistoro (io)

Usage notes

• Transistors, when referring to semiconductor components, may encompass Field Effect Transistors (FET), Unijunction Transistors (UJT), or Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), however often the bipolar type is assumed.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zis.tɔʁ/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

transistor m (plural transistors)

1. transistor
2. transistor radio

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Galician

Noun

transistor m (plural transistores)

1. a transistor (semiconductor device)
2. a transistor radio

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English transistor.

Noun

transistor m (invariable)

1. transistor (device)
2. transistor radio

Derived terms

• fototransistor

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Portuguese

Noun

transistor m (plural transistores)

1. (Brazil) Alternative form of transístor

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Spanish

Noun

transistor m (plural transistores)

1. transistor

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Swedish

Noun

transistor c

1. (electronics) a transistor (semiconductor component)
2. (dated) a transistor, a transistor radio

Declension

Declension of transistor
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	transistor	transistorn	transistorer	transistorerna
Genitive	transistors	transistorns	transistorers	transistorernas