transistorize

American  

[tran-zis-tuh-rahyz] / trænˈzɪs təˌraɪz /

especially British, transistorise

verb (used with object)

Electronics.

transistorized, transistorizing

1. to equip with or convert to a circuit employing transistors.

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transistorize British  

/ trænˈzɪstəˌraɪz /

verb

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

2. to equip (a device or circuit) with transistors and other solid-state components

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Etymology

Origin of transistorize

First recorded in 1950–55; transistor + -ize

Example Sentences

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transistorized

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.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2018

In the 1950s, he developed the first ferrite-core memory storage units to be used in computers commercially and worked on the IBM 7030, known as Stretch, the first transistorized supercomputer.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2016

The TX-0 was the world’s first transistorized computer.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2016

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

From Forbes ● Sep. 27, 2012

“Legally you’re not. But really you are. Biologically. You’re not made out of transistorized circuits like a false animal; you’re an organic entity.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick