# transistor
## English
### Etymology

Blend of transfer +‎ resistor. Said to have been coined by American engineer John Robinson Pierce in 1947.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /tɹænˈzɪs.tɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)

### Noun

transistor (plural transistors)
* (semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.
* (dated, informal) A transistor radio.
** 1978, Billy Joel, Half a Mile Away:Turn your transistor on and let the music play

#### Usage notes

Transistors, when referring to semiconductor components, may encompass field-effect transistors (FETs), unijunction transistors (UJTs), or bipolar junction transistors (BJTs); however, often the bipolar type is assumed.

#### Derived terms

* FET
* junction transistor
* pass transistor
* post-transistor
* silicon planar epitaxial transistor
* TFT
* thin-film transistor
* transistorize
* transistorized
* transistor radio
* UJT

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* transistor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English transistor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɑ̃.zis.tɔʁ/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

transistor m (plural transistors)
* transistor
* (metonymically) transistor radio
** 1982, “Un été sans toi”, performed by Charles Aznavour:Sur mon matelas / Je rêve à ton corps / Soûlé par la voix / De mon transistorOn my mattress / I dream of your body / Reeling from the voice / On my transistor

### Further reading

* “transistor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Noun

transistor m (plural transistores)
* a transistor (semiconductor device)
* a transistor radio

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English transistor.

### Noun

transistor (plural transistor-transistor)
* (electronics) transistor

### Further reading

* “transistor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English transistor.

### Noun

transistor m (invariable)
* transistor (device)
* transistor radio

#### Derived terms

* fototransistor

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.zisˈtoʁ/ [tɾɐ̃.zisˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.zisˈtoʁ/ [tɾɐ̃.zisˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.zisˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.ziʃˈtoʁ/ [tɾɐ̃.ziʃˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.zisˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.ziʃˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.ziʃˈtoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɾɐ̃.ziʃˈto.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: tran‧sis‧tor

### Noun

transistor m (plural transistores)
* Brazilian Portuguese standard form of transístor.

## Romanian
### Noun

transistor n (plural transistoare)
* Alternative form of tranzistor

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾansisˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾãn.sisˈt̪oɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: tran‧sis‧tor

### Noun

transistor m (plural transistores)
* transistor

### Further reading

* “transistor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

transistor c
* (electronics) a transistor (semiconductor component)
* (dated) a transistor, a transistor radio