photovoltaic

See also: photo-voltaic

English

Etymology

photo- +‎ voltaic

Adjective

photovoltaic (not comparable)

1. Producing a voltage when exposed to light.
   • 2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Denmark Hill Station Enhancement Project”, in RAIL, number 940, page 39:

     But the truly impressive part of this entry is the photovoltaic film that has been applied to the platform and entrance roofs (all 272 square metres of it). It is a UK first for the railway, and is expected to generate 36kW of electricity to meet the needs of the station itself and to feed the surplus back to the grid.

   Synonym: photoelectric

Derived terms

• agrophotovoltaic
• floatovoltaic
• photovoltaic cell
• photovoltaic effect
• photovoltaics

 

Related terms

• betavoltaic

Translations

producing a voltage when exposed to light

• Catalan: fotovoltaic (ca) m
• Czech: fotovoltaický
• Finnish: valosähköinen (fi)
• French: photovoltaïque (fr)
• German: fotovoltaisch, photovoltaisch
• Greek: φωτοβολταϊκός (el) (fotovoltaïkós)
• Irish: fótavoltach
• Italian: fotovoltaico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fotovoltaisk

  Nynorsk: fotovoltaisk

• Romanian: fotovoltaic (ro)
• Russian: фотоэлектри́ческий (ru) (fotoelektríčeskij), фотогальвани́ческий (ru) (fotogalʹvaníčeskij), фотовольтаи́ческий (ru) (fotovolʹtaíčeskij)
• Spanish: fotovoltaico
• Swedish: fotovoltaisk (sv)