Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1953, from transistor + -ize. Related: Transistorized.\n
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To equip an electronic circuit or device with transistors, especially to convert a device using an older technology to the use of transistors, particularly to make it smaller or more portable.
WordNet
v. equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors [syn: transistorise]
Usage examples of "transistorize".
Pills and magical Chiclets are no substitute for the transistorized love which passes between us in the savage night.
The diaphragms were connected to a transistorized circuit designed to modulate the field current to the electromagnets.
He had forgotten Rocky's straight pipe and his blowsy wife with her transistorized hair curlers.
Not many people would have known what this was, but I'd seen one betore-- a transistorized homing device for locating the direction of a radio signal, such as emitted by the _Sarah_ device on American space capsules which enables searchers to locate it once it has landed in the sea.
He did not want to advertise the fact, just yet, that he was bringing SCUBA diving gear and two transistorized transceivers on board.