photovoltaic.

Producing electrical energy directly from light through an electronic process in a material.

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Words that belong together

• photovoltaic panel
• photovoltaic cell

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Photovoltaic panels unfolded along the habitat’s sunward wall.

Dust reduced the output of the photovoltaic array.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.