photoelectric cell

Questions about photoelectric cell

What does photoelectric cell mean?

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

What is another word for photoelectric cell?

Close synonyms include photoconductive 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 photoelectric cell a common word?

photoelectric 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.