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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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or pertaining to photoelectricity

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Examples

  • Imagine an array of photo-electric converters above the Earth's atmosphere where they could tap into un-difused sunlight.

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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.

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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.

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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,

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