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.

noun. Any of various devices serving the same purpose but employing a different technology.

noun. A transistor radio.

noun. a component used in electronic devices consisting of three regions of at least two types of a semiconducting material, such as doped silicon, connected to each other and to three electrodes in a conducting path so as to modify the current or voltage in an electronic circuit.

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

noun. a transistor radio

noun. a semiconductor device capable of amplification

"As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it, and switch it on and off."

transistor radio  transistorize  transistorized  

semiconductor  semiconductor device  semiconductor unit  

fet  field-effect transistor  p-n-p transistor  

Lister  Mister  Mr  Mr.  Sister  

amplifier  analog  capacitance  capacitors  circuit