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Transistor

noun

A semiconductor device capable of amplification. Synonyms: electronic transistor, junction transistor.

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... Then, boy-like, he turned on the transistor radio to show his nonchalance. A voice spoke. He'd have shifted to music but Soames caught a ...

— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster

... cost of front-panel cutouts, almost nobody needs or wants to interpret machine-register states on the fly anymore) are only part of the story. Another part of it is that radio-frequency leakage from the lamp wiring was beginning to be a problem as far back as transistor machines. But the most fundamental fact is that there are very few signals slow enough to blink an LED these days! With slow CPUs, you could watch the bus register or instruction counter tick, but at 33/66/150MHz it's all ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

Words linked to "Transistor" : semiconductor, p-n-p transistor, semiconductor device, base, junction transistor, electronic transistor, electronics, FET, semiconductor unit, field-effect transistor, emitter, collector