transistor

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And they also sort of blew the lead, "A device called the transistor which has several applications in radio."

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  1. noun A small electronic device containing a semiconductor and having at least three electrical contacts, used in a circuit as an amplifier, detector, or switch.
  2. noun A transistor radio.

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  • After Von Neumann, we have the Pentium, where the billionth transistor is as reliable as the first one. —  Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs
  • And they also sort of blew the lead, "A device called the transistor which has several applications in radio." —  John Markoff on newspapers
  • Unlike Gertrude Stein's roses, it's not the case that a transistor is a transistor. —  Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
  • America has led the world in revolutionary inventions such as the airplane, transistor, and microprocessor which in turn have created jobs and brought tremendous increases in our gross domestic product and uplifted our standard of living. —  Omni: December 1994
  • The experts call the spots "holes," but I would call them "parking places," and the way you make your transistor is to put the two sorts of stuff up against each other Do you mean that our track Churchill nodded. —  HOW I LOST THE
 

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