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the three legs in a transistor are known as E B and C. They stand for Emitter, Base and collector.

Two of them are input and one is an output. so you have two going into the component and one that goes out.

hope this helps i am also doing an assignment on this and found this out.

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The three legs on a typical bi-junction transistor (BJT) are called the Emitter, the Base, and the Collector. (There are other names when you start talking about FET's, SCR's, TRIAC's, Uni-Junction transistors, etc. If that's what you're looking for, please re-ask the question.)

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Base Emitter and Collector

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