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transistor

See also: Transistor, transístor, and transistör

English

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Four types of transistor.

Etymology

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

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Noun

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transistor (plural transistors)

  1. (semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.
    • 2017 October, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits‎[1], Elenco, pages 9, 59:
      Switches and transistors control the flow of electricity like valves and faucets control water. Resistors limit the flow of electricity. […] Light is transmitted from the color LED, through the fiber optic cable, to control the NPN transistor (Q2) and red LED (D1).
  2. (dated, informal) A transistor radio.
    • 1978, Billy Joel, Half a Mile Away:
      Turn your transistor on and let the music play

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Transistors, when referring to semiconductor components, may encompass field-effect transistors (FETs), unijunction transistors (UJTs), or bipolar junction transistors (BJTs); however, often the bipolar type is assumed.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English transistor.

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Noun

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transistor m (plural transistors)

  1. transistor
  2. (metonymic) transistor radio
    • 1982, “Un été sans toi”, performed by Charles Aznavour:
      Sur mon matelas / Je rêve à ton corps / Soûlé par la voix / De mon transistor
      On my mattress / I dream of your body / Reeling from the voice / On my transistor

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Galician

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Noun

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transistor m (plural transistores)

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

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Internationalism, borrowed from English transistor.

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transistor (plural transistor-transistor)

  1. (electronics) transistor

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English transistor.

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transistor m (invariable)

  1. transistor (device)
  2. transistor radio

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Portuguese

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  • Hyphenation: tran‧sis‧tor

Noun

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transistor m (plural transistores)

  1. Brazilian Portuguese standard form of transístor

Romanian

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Noun

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transistor n (plural transistoare)

  1. Alternative form of tranzistor

Declension

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Declension of transistor
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative transistor transistorul transistoare transistoarele
genitive-dative transistor transistorului transistoare transistoarelor
vocative transistorule transistoarelor

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɾansisˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾãn.sisˈt̪oɾ]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: tran‧sis‧tor

Noun

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transistor m (plural transistores)

  1. transistor

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Swedish

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transistor c

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

Declension

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Declension of transistor
nominative genitive
singular indefinite transistor transistors
definite transistorn transistorns
plural indefinite transistorer transistorers
definite transistorerna transistorernas
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