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How to use transistor in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Transistor means a solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions. Example: “When the current exceeds the limit, the controller gates off the transistor.”

Examples of transistor by meaning

nounA solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage...

  • Switches and transistors control the flow of electricity like valves and faucets control water.2017 October, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, pages 9, 59

nounA transistor radio.

  • Turn your transistor on and let the music play1978, Billy Joel, Half a Mile Away

More sentences with transistor

  • When the current exceeds the limit, the controller gates off the transistor.From the entry gate off
  • Across the border, in Delhi, a similar transistor radio was playing the same station.2025 June 30, Anusha Nandakumar, Sandeep Saket, The War that Made R&AW, Penguin Random House India Private Limited, →ISBN. From the entry radio jockey
  • Every two or three years, the chipsters managed to quadruple the number of transistors per chip.1995, SouthWest Organizing Project, Intel Inside New Mexico, page 5. From the entry chipster
  • I brought a transistor radio on 31 March this year at the Chiaotien shop in Shanghai.1977 November 15 [1977 November 11], Yang Chih-hsin, quotee, “Radio Plant's Attitude Resolves Consumer's Complaint”, in Daily Report…. From the entry Shannan
  • A transistor-diode matrix is composed of vertical and horizontal wires with a transistor at each intersection.1962, Burroughs Corporation, Digital Computer Principles. From the entry matrix
  • We report room-temperature Coulomb blockade in a single layer graphene three-terminal single-electron transistor (SET) fabricated using feedback-controlled electroburning.2015, Paweł Puczkarski, Pascal Gehring, Chit S. Lau, Junjie Liu, Arzhang Ardavan, Jamie H. Warner, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Jan A. Mol…. From the entry electroburning
  • Active components like the vacuum tube and the transistor contain the power to generate and alter electrical signals.2013, David Manners, Hitchhikers' Guide to Electronics in the '90s, page 36. From the entry active
  • Even if you are not a transistor collector, it is still pretty neat seeing that many early transistors.2004 November 28, (0) -^- (0) [username], “A gazillion vintage transistors for sale on Ebay”, in rec.antiques.radio+phono (Usenet). From the entry gazillion
  • Every house has a transistor or a radio.1969, Sarvodaya, volume 19, pages 189-190. From the entry chowpal
  • Beneath the electronic revolution that began with the transistor lie the abstruse theories of a science called solid-state physics.1961, Henry Robinson Luce, Fortune, Time, page 150. From the entry supermagnet
  • The transistor matrix in the encoder supplies the sequential gates.1959, John Millar Carroll, Modern Transistor Circuits. From the entry matrix
  • Light is transmitted from the color LED, through the fiber optic cable, to control the PNP transistor (Q1) and red LED (D1).2017 October, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 59. From the entry PNP
  • Light is transmitted from the color LED, through the fiber optic cable, to control the NPN transistor (Q2) and red LED (D1).2017 October, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 59. From the entry NPN
  • We further show that perovskite crystals can be selectively grown on prepatterned electrode arrays to create independently addressable photodetector arrays and functional field effect transistors.2015, Gongming Wang, Dehui Li, Hung-Chieh Cheng, Yongjia Li, Chih-Yen Chen, Anxiang Yin, Zipeng Zhao, Zhaoyang Lin, Hao Wu, Qiyuan He…. From the entry prepatterned
  • Howards thought wildly in a moment of pure panic), and put what looked like a small transistor radio with two speaker-grids down on the desk.1969, Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron, New York: Walker and Company, →LCCN, page 249. From the entry miniphone
  • I finally went into one radioteria and had the salesman demonstrate several of the transistor all-wave sets that he had in stock.1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 38. From the entry radioteria
  • Make a transistor too small, for example, and electrons within it can simply vanish from one place and reappear in another because their location is quantumly indeterminate.2012 February 25, ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist. From the entry quantumly
  • The transistor radio swiped from an East 39th Street brownstone could be traded on a Harlem street corner for a "nickel's worth of schmeck" (a $5 bag of heroin).1974, Duane Denfeld, Street-wise Criminology, page 99. From the entry schmeck
  • He had stolen 'trannies' (transistor radios) and hub caps from cars outside the main hotels in Glasgow, turning the collection into money through dealing with a 'punter' at Charing Cross.2013, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed. From the entry punter

Meaning of transistor

  1. noun A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.
  2. noun A transistor radio.

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Questions about transistor in a sentence

How do you use transistor in a sentence?
Transistor is used as a noun. For example: “When the current exceeds the limit, the controller gates off the transistor.”
What is a short sentence with transistor?
“Every house has a transistor or a radio.”
What does transistor mean?
Transistor means a solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.

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