photoelectricity
[foh-toh-i-lek-tris-i-tee, -ee-lek-]
- electricity induced by electromagnetic radiation, as in certain processes, as the photoelectric and photovoltaic effects, photoconductivity, and photoionization.
- the branch of physics that deals with these phenomena.
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