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transistor

Portuguese, noun

transistor is spelled T-R-A-N-S-I-S-T-O-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,963rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Transistor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of transístor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, transístor is a different word: “transistor (solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transístor”.

What does transistor mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Brazilmasculinealternative form of transístor

noun

as transístor
  1. 1

    masculinetransistor (solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals)

  2. 2

    masculinetransistor radio

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. transístor

noun: 1. dispositivo semicondutor usado para amplificar ou chavear sinais e energia elétrica composto por ao menos três terminais de conexão a um circuito onde a tensão ou corrente aplicada a um par de seus terminais controla a corrente através de outro par de terminais de modo que saída de potência controlada seja maior que a entrada de potência de controle - ampliando assim um sinal, substituindo assim a 2. o aparelho radiorreceptor tornado portátil com o uso desse dispositivo que, pelo baixo consumo de energia, era alimentado por pilhas descartáveis

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of transistor

  • transistores plural
  • transístores plural
  • transistor alternative Brazil

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to transistor

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is transistor in Portuguese?

transistor appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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