field-effect transistor

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   a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field

   SynonymsFET

   Broadertransistor

Questions about field-effect transistor

What does field-effect transistor mean?

field-effect transistor means "a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field".

What is another word for field-effect transistor?

Close synonyms include FET. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field-effect transistor a common word?

field-effect transistor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.