solar energy

1. 1.

   energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy

   “the amount of energy falling on the earth is given by the solar constant, but very little use has been made of solar energy”

   Synonymssolar power

   Broaderalternative energy

Questions about solar energy

What does solar energy mean?

solar energy means "energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy".

What is another word for solar energy?

Close synonyms include solar power. 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 solar energy a common word?

solar energy 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.