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Definitions of transistor
  1. noun
    a semiconductor device capable of amplification
Definition that contains transistor
  • base (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
  • si a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
  • collector the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
  • ge a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
  • silicon a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
  • emitter the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate
  • shockley United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989)
  • arsine a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare
  • transistorised (of an electronic device) equipped with transistors
  • fet a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
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