photomultiplier.

A light detector that converts incident light into an electrical signal and greatly amplifies it, typically through electron multiplication.

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Words that belong together

• a photomultiplier tube
• photomultiplier gain

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The photomultiplier registered flashes too faint for the observer to see.

She reduced the photomultiplier gain when the signal began to saturate.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular photomultiplier; plural photomultipliers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.