transistorin a sentence
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Today, most transistors are embedded in integrated circuits.
transistors = a semiconductor device use to amplify (or control) electrical current
- The laser, the transistor the polio vaccine, the microchip, the hologram, the personal computer, magnetic resonance imaging, CAT scans-the list goes on and on.† (source)
- Morning classical on the kitchen transistor, meditative piano sonata.† (source)
- She went to people's homes and soldered power transistors in their TVs, replaced signal capacitors in old tube-model radios.† (source)
- She spent hours on the riverbank with her little plastic transistor shaped like a tangerine.† (source)
- I looked away for a second to blink them off, and Go said, "So I needed a triple-A battery, which, as it turns out, is different from a transistor battery, so I had to find the receipt to return the transistor battery …."† (source)
- For a tick of time, before it all turned into white dust, I saw it was a miniature electronic element like the ones I helped the Radar Corps work with in the Army, microscopic wires and grids and transistors, this one designed to dissolve on contact with air.† (source)
- He wished Artkin allowed him to take his transistor on operations.† (source)
- They glued transistors to their ears all summer, even during Jorge del Pino's brief hospital stays, and cheered when the Mets caught fire and the Cubs finally folded.† (source)
- Couples were drinking and whispering on the grass, and the transistors were turned down.† (source)
- I twisted the knob of my transistor, but it was still too early to pick up anything far from Fulton.† (source)
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- Even when he ran up or down stairs, or discovered imperative duties outside, Randy carried his tiny transistor portable.† (source)
- Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photoelectric cells, and a cubic metre of printed circuits could perform.† (source)
- The Courier's Tragedy was being put on by a San Narciso group known as the Tank Players, the Tank being a small arena theater located out between a traffic analysis firm and a wildcat transistor outfit that hadn't been there last year and wouldn't be this coming but meanwhile was underselling even the Japanese and hauling in loot by the steamshovelful.† (source)
- A red-headed researcher, actually working on a problem of a transistor which would record the TP impulse, hastily invented the fact that TP optical transmission was astigmatic and humbly requested enlightenment.† (source)
- Ammu groped for her tangerine transistor, and switched it on.† (source)
- Ammu switched on her tangerine transistor.† (source)
- Babies cried over the noise of transistors.† (source)
- I have a transistor but it is not allowed on. operations.† (source)
- It was dark by five o'clock when Misty and I went out on the sleeping porch to get my transistor.† (source)
- Somehow, by not mentioning his name, she knew that she had drawn him into the tousled intimacy of that blue cross-stitch afternoon and the song from the tangerine transistor.† (source)
- "Well, hello, Misty Rhodes," my father said, the earplug of his transistor firmly wedged in his right ear.† (source)
- An occasional peal of drunken laughter drowned out the hoarse yells of tired children and the stoop chatter and the muted noise of a dozen transistors on different stations.† (source)
- I kept a small transistor under my pillow and listened to a station in Fort Wayne, Indiana; it was as far as I could get from home without static, and I tried to imagine the invisible lines connecting me, millions of threads stretched over rooftops, crisscrossed with television antennae that rotated when the station was turned.† (source)
- The transistors were silent.† (source)
- At six on that Friday evening, Dan had not returned from his calls, so Randy sat at his bar alone with the little transistor portable.† (source)
- I owe this progress report to Burt who had the bright idea that I could dictate this on a transistor tape recorder and have a public stenographer in Chicago type it up.† (source)
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