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post-transistor

post-transistor adjective: belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits.

Adjective

post-transistor (not comparable)

  1. (context) belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits
    • during the genesis of solid-state electronics and the post-transistor era of integrated circuits for telecommunications, computers, and digital signal machines
    • the International Business Machines 360 series, which emerged in the late nineteen‐sixties as a major post-transistor family of general purpose computers.

Origin of post-transistor

From post- + transistor.

Questions about post-transistor

What does post-transistor mean?
Post-transistor means belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits.
What part of speech is post-transistor?
Post-transistor is an adjective.

Words near post-transistor in the dictionary

  1. post-trained
  2. post-training
  3. post-trains
  4. post-transcriptional
  5. post-transcriptionally
  6. post-transistor
  7. post-transition metal
  8. post-transition metals
  9. post-translational
  10. post-translational modification
  11. post-translational modifications

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