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Definition of: transistor
(tran·zis′tər, -sis′-) noun Electronics
1. A semiconductor device having three terminals and the property that the current between one pair of them is a function of the current between another pair.
2. A transistorized radio. [<TRANS(FER) (RES)ISTOR]
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