Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Acting by the combined operation of light and electricity; producing light by means of electricity; also noting apparatus for taking photographs by electric light, or by a lamp whose illuminating power is derived from electricity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.
- adjective Pert. to, or capable of developing, photo-electricity.
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- adjective of or pertaining to photoelectricity
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Examples
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Imagine an array of photo-electric converters above the Earth's atmosphere where they could tap into un-difused sunlight.
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A reader sings the praises of photo-electric smoke detectors.
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Held over from an earlier show of Chinese artists, this is an installation of individually well-characterized, gaga old men, looking like a grotesque collection of senile world leaders, colliding at random in their wheelchairs, in a riotously funny display of photo-electric cell-activated dodgems.
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THAT was also why relativistic physics had to come about– before the photo-electric phenomenon scientists thought that they had everything in physics figured out!
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THAT was also why relativistic physics had to come about– before the photo-electric phenomenon scientists thought that they had everything in physics figured out!
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Physics in 1921 (awarded in 1922), motivated by work on the photo-electric effect which demonstrated the particle aspects of light.
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This photo-electric effect, as it is known, was first observed by Heinrich Hertz in the 1880s.
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Electronically controlled machines incorporate photo-electric cells that automatically sense bends requiring snipping and pleating, and also dispense thermoplastic adhesive to bond the material in position.
Chapter 5 1982
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The pH was initially adjusted to 7.0 and the temperature was kept constant at 35 C. Turbidity was measured at intervals with a Klett-Summerson photo-electric calorimeter, and the maximum specific growth rates were calculated from the kinetics of growth.
Chapter 22 1979
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Although having decidedly furthered the de - velopment of the probabilistic interpretation of quan - tum phenomena through his early contributions to the photo-electric effect and through his statistical deriva - tion of Planck's formula for black-body radiation,
INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968
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