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 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 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
  • The circuits flip on and off based on the activity of switches called transistors.
    Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • This is likely where Apple saved most of those transistors.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That's already a step up from the M2, which has only 20 billion transistors across eight total cores.
    PCMAG, 25 May 2024
  • In chip manufacturing, a nanometer denotes the size of transistors on a processor.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024

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