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Transistor vs Potentiometer - What's the difference?

transistor | potentiometer |

As nouns the difference between transistor and potentiometer

is that transistor is a solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions while potentiometer is a user-adjustable variable resistor that functions as a voltage divider.

transistor

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia transistor)
  • a solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions
  • (dated, informal) a transistor radio

    • Derived terms

    * transistorize * transistorized * transistor radio

    potentiometer

    English

    (wikipedia potentiometer)

    Alternative forms

    * potentiometre

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (electronics) A user-adjustable variable resistor that functions as a voltage divider.
  • (physics) An instrument that measures a voltage by opposing it with a precise fraction of a known voltage, and without drawing current from the unknown source.

    • Related terms

    * potentiometry