(semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.

(transitive) To equip an electronic circuit or device with transistors, especially to convert a device using an older technology to the use of transistors, particularly to make it smaller or more portable.

simple past tense and past participle of transistorize

Built using solid state components such as transistors.

plural of transistor

(chiefly historical) The process of transistorizing; the transition from the use of vacuum tubes to the use of semiconductor transistors.

present participle of transistorize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of transistorize

(dated) A small portable radio receiver having transistors rather than thermionic valves; popular from the late 1950s.

(physics) A transistor in which the emitter and collector barriers are formed by p-n junctions between semiconductor regions of opposite conductivity type.