photovoltaic

See also: photo-voltaic

English

photovoltaic (not comparable)

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

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)

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