TRANSISTORIZE Definition & Meaning

transistorize

[ tran-zis-tuh-rahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

Electronics.

transistorized, transistorizing.

to equip with or convert to a circuit employing transistors.

transistorize

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verb

to convert (a system, device, industry, etc) to the use or manufacture of or operation by transistors and other solid-state components
to equip (a device or circuit) with transistors and other solid-state components

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of transistorize¹

First recorded in 1950–55; transistor + -ize

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Bakken would later found Medtronic, develop the first transistorized cardiac pacemaker, and open a museum devoted to electricity in the life sciences that's housed in a Gothic Revival style mansion in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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The sounds are transistorized, sharper than sharp, just as the plastic lettering over a hot dog stand is redder than red.

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A founder of DEC, which built the first transistorized computers, and then made them small.

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More consistent performance from the first fully transistorized in-dash units came early in the next decade.

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During World War I, a competent spy equipped with a compact transistorized short-wave communications system could have had himself a ball.

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