MEANING
Producing electrical charge under mechanical stress, or deforming when an electrical field is applied.
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- piezoelectric sensor
- piezoelectric actuator
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A piezoelectric sensor detected the vibration through the deck.
The instrument’s piezoelectric actuator shifted the mirror by a minute distance.
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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.
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