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by kazinator 755 days ago
That word would be misleading because it has been taken to refer to vacuum tubes.

I would call this a "trioptode". That incorporates the "tri" and "ode", plus a reference to that it is optical: the third terminal modulates light.

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I will start refer to them as trioltodes.
I have chosen LET, Light Emitting Triode, in the 2 minutes I have known about this
Can't wait for all the confusion in LET/LED pronunciation.
and an octet of data carried through a gate like this is a... Trilobyte?