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Photo-electric

Photo-electric \Pho`to-e*lec"tric\, a. [Photo- + electric.] Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.

Photo-electric

Photo-electric \Pho`to-e*lec"tric\, Photo-electrical \Pho`to-e*lec"tric*al\, a. Pert. to, or capable of developing, photo-electricity.

Usage examples of "photo-electric".

I was, for I was sufficiently out of their time-rate, so that they were visible only by the short ultra-violet, which would have put in their infra-red, and, no photo-electric cell will work on quanta of such low energy.

This operated an ultraviolet light projector on the front of the sedan, and the beam in turn actuated a photo-electric cell which caused the great door in the front of the warehouse hangar to slide open.

These had operated a special photo-electric cell concealed in the front of the great barn of a building.

You think we might have something as simple as a photo-electric cell which can only find a light.

The receiver is a screen sensitive to the emanations in the same way that a photo-electric cell is sensitive to light.

I could have been nvisible to Thett's ships as we followed them here, and for he greater part of the way I was, for I was sufficiently out of their time-rate, so that they were visible only by the hort ultra-violet, which would have put in their infra-red, ind, no photo-electric cell will work on quanta of such low energy.

An outside light, operated by a photo-electric cell, went out when the object appeared.

In photo-electric cells, thyratrons, amplifiers, and in every part of my structure, the flow of energy becomes uniform and meaningless.