Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
effect .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Elec.) The production or absorption of heat at the junction of two metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.
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- noun physics A
thermodynamic effect which occurs when current is passed through athermocouple , used incomputing as a cooling process.
Etymologies
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From physicist John C. A. Peltier the discoverer of the effect
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