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Definitions for transistor
trænˈzɪs tərtran·sis·tor
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Princeton's WordNet
transistor, junction transistor, electronic transistornoun
a semiconductor device capable of amplification
Wiktionary
transistornoun
a solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions
transistornoun
a transistor radio
Etymology: Blend of transconductance (or transfer) and resistor
Wikipedia
Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. The transistor is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semiconductor material, usually with at least three terminals for connection to an electronic circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals controls the current through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. Some transistors are packaged individually, but many more in miniature form are found embedded in integrated circuits. Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld proposed the concept of a field-effect transistor in 1926, but it was not possible to actually construct a working device at that time. The first working device to be built was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley at Bell Labs. The three shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement. The most widely used type of transistor is the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), which was invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959. Transistors revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things. Most transistors are made from very pure silicon, and some from germanium, but certain other semiconductor materials are sometimes used. A transistor may have only one kind of charge carrier, in a field-effect transistor, or may have two kinds of charge carriers in bipolar junction transistor devices. Compared with the vacuum tube, transistors are generally smaller and require less power to operate. Certain vacuum tubes have advantages over transistors at very high operating frequencies or high operating voltages. Many types of transistors are made to standardized specifications by multiple manufacturers.
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transistor
A transistor is a type of semiconductor device with three layers of either P-type or N-type material. It is used in various electronic devices to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power, due to its capability to control an output signal based on the input signal applied. Transistors revolutionized technology by becoming the fundamental building blocks of modern computer systems and other electronic devices.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled power can be higher than the controlling power, a transistor can amplify a signal. Today, some transistors are packaged individually, but many more are found embedded in integrated circuits. The transistor is the fundamental building block of modern electronic devices, and is ubiquitous in modern electronic systems. Following its development in the early 1950s, the transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of transistor in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of transistor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of transistor in a Sentence
They pushed the can down the road. intel’s 14-nanometer chip transistor speed has always been faster than what any foundry can offer even at 7-nanometer.
Unlike a transistor, which is based on binary codes, a memristor can have multi-levels. You could have several states, let's say zero, one half, one quarter, one third, and so on, and that gives us a very powerful new perspective on how our computers may develop in the future.
It sure is nice to be at the right place at the right time, i was very fortunate to get into the semiconductor industry in its infancy. And I had an opportunity to grow from the time where we couldn’t make a single silicon transistor to the time where we put 1.7 billion of them on one chip! It’s been a phenomenal ride.
In 1951 the French and their allies had complete control of the south (of Vietnam), so all the real revolutionary activity would be happening in the north, they would have a transistor radio (in the tunnels) and they'd be transcribing news of what would be happening in the north.
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- ترانزستورArabic
- transistorCatalan, Valencian
- tranzistorCzech
- TransistorGerman
- transistorSpanish
- transistorEstonian
- transistorFrench
- transistorGalician
- tranzisztorHungarian
- smáriIcelandic
- radiolinaItalian
- トランジスタJapanese
- 트랜지스터Korean
- transistorDutch
- tranzystorPolish
- transístorPortuguese
- транзи́стор, радиоприёмник, приёмникRussian
- транзистор, tranzistorSerbo-Croatian
- transistorSwedish
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