How to Use transistor in a Sentence

transistor

noun
  • 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 laws of physics would allow transistors to get only so small.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Put on my transistor, put in my earphones, and listen to him take me away.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
  • These add up and shift the transistor towards the off state, says Narukiyo.
    — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • So there was a lot of music going on from that transistor radio.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
  • 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
  • That concept was foreign to me, having grown up in the transistor era.
    — David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Modern chips cram tens of billions of transistors into a small area.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • But to be used in transistors, pure silicon must be melted down.
    — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The team has now built the first transistor-like switch that controls exciton flow.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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 first chip was made in a 65-nm process, which uses planar transistors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The device’s gate controls the flow of current through the transistor.
    — Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The nanometer measure is used to indicate the size of transistors on a chip.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • The smaller the number, the more transistors can fit on a chip the size of a fingernail.
    — CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • This is how transistors are etched onto the surface of the silicon wafer.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The team determined that the transistors can self-heal in between flybys.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The smaller the transistor, the lower the voltage necessary to turn it on and off.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
  • This isolated everything but the edge of the graphene from the rest of the transistor hardware.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
  • When computing became cheaper per transistor, the world did not use the same amount of compute.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The circuits flip on and off based on the activity of switches called transistors.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Just magnets, copper wire, a transistor, and a 9-volt battery.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
  • 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 ultimate promise is that chips can have more transistors and be more efficient.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • More transistors per chip area means more interconnects have been installed to connect them.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2017
  • More transistors per chip area means more interconnects have been installed to connect them.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2017
  • An in-between transistor called the forksheet might keep circuits shrinking without quite as much work.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2023

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