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post-transistor

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Qualifier: context

Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

Examples

  • during the genesis of solid-state electronics and the post-transistor era of integrated circuits for telecommunications, computers, and digital signal machines
  • the International Business Machines 360 series, which emerged in the late nineteen‐sixties as a major post-transistor family of general purpose computers.

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History

Etymology

From post- + transistor.