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solar array

n. electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cells [syn: solar battery, solar panel]

Usage examples of "solar array".

The huge electromagnet hit the TIE fighter's port solar array and snagged it, yanking the starfighter along beside the skiff.

He fired out of reflex, was rewarded with seeing a TIE's solar array wing explode under his lasers.

To generate the juice we need from a solar array you'd need an area half the size of a football field, and weighing maybe ten times as much.

The Surbrent-Xia solar array that powered the engines made the stubby wings shimmer as light played across them.

She shook the yoke in her hand, spraying fire around as though using a nozzle to water a patch of grass, and saw one of the beams strike home, charring a hole in the starfighter's port solar array wing.

The solar array was a sign to all the world that the village of Katai was protected by the Peace Enforcers.

However, the hill had a respectably sized relay tower on it, with its own concrete-embedded solar array and a small windowless cement blockhouse.

Over the past days, he'd gestalted with Padrugoi's solar-powered generators, the ship's fuel-powered one, the exceedingly easy-to-tap CERN generators, the Farside Telescope's solar array, and, most recently, had had just a nibble at the nuclear/solar-power-augmented generators on the Moon.

The added mass would be concentrated in the solar array structure and its interface with the rest of the craft.

He continued the demonstration a bit longer, answered questions about volume and costs of setup, then led them out of that tower to another, up, up, to an enclosed hangar that held several small craft, with single central pilot pods, wing pylons extending from either side, connecting solar array wings that featured a top third and bottom third angled at forty-five degrees back in toward the central pod.

Vissan showed Mary her datapad, and how she could recharge it from the solar array on the cabin’.