Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

post-transistor

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables: post--tran-sis-tor
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits

Example Sentences

"during the genesis of solid-state electronics and the post-transistor era of integrated circuits for telecommunications, computers, and digital signal machines"
"the International Business Machines 360 series, which emerged in the late nineteen‐sixties as a major post-transistor family of general purpose computers."

Etymology

From post- + transistor.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: post

Questions

What does post-transistor mean?: belonging to the time (late 1960s) after individual transistors were replaced by integrated circuits
Where does post-transistor come from?: From post- + transistor.

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