Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Transistor
a small electronic device composed of semiconductor material such as germanium or silicon, that amplifies or otherwise modifies a signal or current. Transistors replaced vacuum tubes and are rapidly being replaced by printed circuit boards, both of which perform the same or similar functions. Comput-ers, as we know them today would not exist without transistors.
