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PHOTOELECTRICITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does photoelectricity mean?
• PHOTOELECTRICITY (noun)
The noun PHOTOELECTRICITY has 1 sense:
1. electricity generated by light or affected by light
Familiarity information: PHOTOELECTRICITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Electricity generated by light or affected by light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("photoelectricity" is a kind of...):
electricity (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)
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