photoconductive cell

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   a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations

   Synonymsphotoelectric cellphotocellelectric eyemagic eye

   Broadertransducerdetector

   Narrowerselenium cell

   Partsphotocathode

Questions about photoconductive cell

What does photoconductive cell mean?

photoconductive cell means "a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations".

What is another word for photoconductive cell?

Close synonyms include photoelectric cell, photocell, electric eye, magic eye. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photoconductive cell a common word?

photoconductive cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.