Associations to the word «Transistor»

Pictures for the word «Transistor»

Wiktionary

TRANSISTOR, noun. A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions
TRANSISTOR, noun. (dated) (informal) a transistor radio
TRANSISTOR RADIO, noun. (dated) a small portable radio receiver having transistors rather than thermionic valves; popular from the late 1950s
TRANSISTOR RADIOS, noun. Plural of transistor radio

Dictionary definition

TRANSISTOR, noun. A semiconductor device capable of amplification.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats