transistor

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

• Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)

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.
2. (dated, informal) A transistor radio.
   • 1978, Billy Joel, "Half a Mile Away":

     Turn your transistor on and let the music play

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.

• transistor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English transistor

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zis.tɔʁ/

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transistor m (plural transistors)

1. transistor
2. (metonymically) 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

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• “transistor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

transistor m (plural transistores)

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

Borrowed from English transistor.

transistor m (invariable)

1. transistor (device)
2. transistor radio

• fototransistor

transistor m (plural transistores)

1. Brazil form of transístor

transistor n (plural transistoare)

1. Alternative form of tranzistor

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

transistor m (plural transistores)

1. transistor

• “transistor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

transistor c

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