transistor的词源

英文词源

transistor (n.)

small electronic device, 1948, from transfer + resistor, so called because it transfers an electrical current across a resistor. Said to have been coined by U.S. electrical engineer John Robinson Pierce (1910-2002) of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., where the device was invented in 1947. It took over many functions of the vacuum tube. Transistor radio is first recorded 1958.

中文词源

transistor：晶体管

它是个合成词，由transfer（转移，转换）和resistor（电阻器）合而为一。因为晶体管可以通过电阻器把交流电转换为直流电。前缀trans-表“穿过，由此及彼”，词根fer表“携带”，所以transfer由字面的“带着某物从一地到达另一地”引申为“转移”。

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transistor：晶体管

合成自 transfer,转移，resistor,电阻器。因该电子元件通过电阻器转移电流而得名。