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PHOTOVOLTAIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does photovoltaic mean?
• PHOTOVOLTAIC (adjective)
The adjective PHOTOVOLTAIC has 1 sense:
1. producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy (especially light)
Familiarity information: PHOTOVOLTAIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy (especially light)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
voltage (the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts)
Context examples
To meet part of the plant's demand for electric energy, a photovoltaic micro-plant was built nearby.
(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)
The solar cells in the study are based on metal halide perovskites – a promising group of ionic semiconductor materials that in just a few short years of development now rival commercial thin film photovoltaic technologies in terms of their efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity.
(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)
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