transistorized

/træn'sistəraizd/

Thân thiện

The technician repairs a transistorized radio.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Equipped with transistors: Describes an electronic device that uses transistors as its primary active components, replacing older technologies like vacuum tubes. - The transistorized radio was much smaller and more reliable than its tube-based predecessor.

Usage

• Used to describe electronic devices, circuits, or systems where transistors are the fundamental amplifying or switching components.
• Often highlights a historical or technological shift from vacuum tube technology to solid-state electronics.
• Typically modifies nouns like , , , , or .

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The company's first transistorized television was a major commercial success.
  • Modern computers are built on transistorized integrated circuits.
  • He collects vintage transistorized audio equipment from the 1960s.

Advanced Usage

• "fully transistorized": Emphasizes that all critical electronic functions within a device use transistors, with no vacuum tubes.
  • The military required a rugged, fully transistorized communication system.

Variants and Related Words

• Transistor (n): A semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.
• Transistorize (v): To equip (a device or circuit) with transistors.
  • The engineers worked to transistorize the old amplifier design.
• Solid-state (adj): A broader term for electronic components (like transistors) or devices that use semiconductors and have no moving parts or vacuum tubes. A transistorized device is a type of solid-state device.

Synonyms

• Solid-state (when referring to the use of semiconductors instead of vacuum tubes).

Antonyms

• Tube-based (using vacuum tubes).
• Valve-based (chiefly British English, using vacuum tubes/valves).

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of an electronic device) equipped with transistors

Từ đồng nghĩa

• transistorised