transistor

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• General-American: /tɹænˈzɪs.tɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɪstə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: T R AE0 N Z IH1 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Blend of transfer + resistor. Said to have been coined by American engineer John Robinson Pierce in 1947, who used transresistance as the basis for forming transistor.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تْرَانْزِسْتُور (tranzistur) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Asturian: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Bulgarian: транзи́стор (tranzístor) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Catalan: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Chinese Cantonese: 電晶體 /电晶体 — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Chinese Cantonese: 晶體管 /晶体管 — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Chinese Cantonese: 原子粒 — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Chinese Mandarin: 晶體管 /晶体管 (jīngtǐguǎn) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Chinese Mandarin: 電晶體 /电晶体 (diànjīngtǐ) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Czech: tranzistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Danish: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Dutch: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Estonian: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Finnish: transistori — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• French: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Galician: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Georgian: ტრანზისტორი (ṭranzisṭori) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• German: Transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Greek: κρυσταλλοτρίοδος (krystallotríodos) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Greek: τρανζίστορ (tranzístor) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Hebrew: טרנזיסטור (tranzístor) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Hungarian: tranzisztor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Icelandic: smári — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Indonesian: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Italian: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Italian: transistore — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Japanese: トランジスタ (toranjisuta) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Khmer: ត្រង់ស៊ីស្ទ័រ (trɑngsiistɔə) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Korean: 트랜지스터 (teuraenjiseuteo) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Latvian: transistors — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Lithuanian: tranzistorius — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Malay: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Māori: whitiārai — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Norwegian Bokmål: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Norwegian Nynorsk: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Polish: tranzystor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Portuguese: transístor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Romanian: tranzistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Russian: транзи́стор (tranzístor) — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Serbo-Croatian: транзистор — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Serbo-Croatian: tranzistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Spanish: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Swedish: transistor — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Tagalog: saligwil — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Turkish: transistör — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Vietnamese: bóng bán dẫn — solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals
• Asturian: transistor — small portable radio
• Bulgarian: транзи́стор (tranzístor) — small portable radio
• Catalan: transistor — small portable radio
• Czech: tranzistor — small portable radio
• Czech: tranďák — small portable radio
• Estonian: transistor — small portable radio
• Galician: transistor — small portable radio
• Hebrew: טרנזיסטור (tranzístor) — small portable radio
• Italian: radiolina — small portable radio
• Italian: transistor — small portable radio
• Lithuanian: tranzistorius — small portable radio
• Polish: tranzystor — small portable radio
• Portuguese: transístor — small portable radio
• Romanian: tranzistor — small portable radio
• Russian: транзи́стор (tranzístor) — small portable radio
• Russian: радиоприёмник (radioprijómnik) — small portable radio
• Russian: приёмник (prijómnik) — small portable radio
• Spanish: transistor — small portable radio
• Swedish: transistor — small portable radio