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PHOTOELECTRIC EMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photoelectric emission mean? 

PHOTOELECTRIC EMISSION (noun)
  The noun PHOTOELECTRIC EMISSION has 1 sense:

1. the release or absorption of quanta above a certain energy levelplay

  Familiarity information: PHOTOELECTRIC EMISSION used as a noun is very rare.


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PHOTOELECTRIC EMISSION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The release or absorption of quanta above a certain energy level

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("photoelectric emission" is a kind of...):

emission (the release of electrons from parent atoms)


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