How to Use transistor in a Sentence

transistor

noun

• In the middle of the night the cadre awoke us to listen to the landing on a transistor radio.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 14 July 2019
• Its use of transistors reduced the size, but the battery packs, worn in a belt around the waist, were heavy.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
• Think of a nanometer as a tiny unit that measures the size of transistors on a chip.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
• The price of fighter jets has not come down in the way the price of transistors or consumer hardware has.
  — Mustafa Suleyman, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• The laws of physics would allow transistors to get only so small.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
• The smaller the transistor, the lower the voltage necessary to turn it on and off.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
• The first chip was made in a 65-nm process, which uses planar transistors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• This isolated everything but the edge of the graphene from the rest of the transistor hardware.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
• Put on my transistor, put in my earphones, and listen to him take me away.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
• Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett were present in the crowd through all the transistor radios.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• While the 20th century was the century of physics—think the atomic bomb, the laser and the transistor—this will be the century of the brain.
  — Christof Koch, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• My dad had a transistor radio that was the size of a large cellphone today.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• My dad gave me his transistor radio to listen to the game after class.
  — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 14 May 2022
• Through the glass doors, Freddie could make out the night guard at the bell stand, fiddling with the long antenna of a transistor radio.
  — Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• The first morning the white women bring lawn chairs and card tables and set up in the street in front of the Emorys house, blaring their transistor radios.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2021
• The first chips, invented in the late 1950s, held only a handful of transistors.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• The smaller the size of a transistor, the more can be fit on a chip, increasing its level of advancement.
  — Dylan Butts, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024
• One of the major ones was growing a GaN transistor directly on top of an SiC one.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
• This is how transistors are etched onto the surface of the silicon wafer.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
• One day in 1960 Shively turned the dial of his transistor all the way over to the right-hand side and landed on a Black radio station for the first time.
  — Jason Varney, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2021
• Bell Labs was the birthplace of storied innovations such as the transistor and the precursor to the laser.
  — Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
• So there was a lot of music going on from that transistor radio.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• In chip manufacturing, the process can lay down transistors that are no more than a 100 atoms across.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• The team determined that the transistors can self-heal in between flybys.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
• The transistor, the building block of modern technologies, is around 75 years old.
  — Jon Gertner, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• Louise Samaniego: Thank you for talking about all of the transistor radios tuned into Vinny at each game.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• In many ways, the transistor is what turned the page from the electrical revolution to the digital one.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2023
• The rose with a transistor on its stem also turned the underside of a leaf into a simple display.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2015
• If impure quartz is used, the outside materials can hamper the effectiveness of the transistor.
  — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
• This design has resulted in a chip that’s supposedly four times faster and with more than double the number of transistors as its predecessor.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024