单词 | transistor |
释义 | transistor (once / 10396 pages) n Use the noun transistor to describe the small metal device that helps send and amplify signals in a radio. Your grandpa might carry a transistor radio around on game day. You may have heard of a transistor radio, or a portable radio that was produced in the 1950s after the development of transistors. These tiny devices made it possible for much smaller electronics to be made, like radios that people could carry in their hands. Transistors are still used in electronic products today. The word comes from the words transfer and resistor, because an electrical current in a transistor is transferred across a resistor, a two-terminal component of electronics. WORD FAMILYtransistor: transistorise, transistorize, transistors+/transistorise: transistorised/transistorize: transistorized USAGE EXAMPLESTransistors, tiny electrical switches, are the fundamental unit that drives all the electronic gadgets we can think of. Salon(Dec 01, 2016) Chip makers for decades packed double the number of transistors on chips every two years or so, a pattern known as Moore’s Law. Wall Street Journal(Nov 28, 2016) The transistor was born in the 1940s at AT&T’s Bell Labs. Wall Street Journal(Nov 20, 2016) n a semiconductor device capable of amplification Syn|Hypo|Hyper electronic transistor, junction transistor FET, field-effect transistor a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field p-n-p transistora junction transistor having an n-type semiconductor between a p-type semiconductor that serves as an emitter and a p-type semiconductor that serves as a collector semiconductor, semiconductor device, semiconductor unit a conductor made with semiconducting material |
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