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Technically it is a triode but that word would be misleading here since this device is more like a diode with a MOSFET like insulated gate.

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.

I will start refer to them as trioltodes.

and an octet of data carried through a gate like this is a... Trilobyte?

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 the hollow-state triode is more or less the same thing as JFET, except it needs higher bias voltages.