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name
Ellipsis of FET y de las JONS, a political party in Francoist Spain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Initialism of field effect transistor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
A piece.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Clipping of fetish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, uncountable
Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality
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verb
To fetch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: field-effect transistor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: transistor, junction transistor, electronic transistor
History
Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).
From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *fetan, from Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.
Across languages
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