photoelectric emission

1. 1.

   the release or absorption of quanta above a certain energy level

   Broaderemission

Questions about photoelectric emission

What does photoelectric emission mean?

photoelectric emission means "the release or absorption of quanta above a certain energy level".

Is photoelectric emission a common word?

photoelectric emission 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.