Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity.
- noun A pyroelectric material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to pyro-electricity; having the property of becoming electropolar when heated, as certain crystals; thermo-electric.
- noun A substance which becomes electrified when heated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics) Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.
- noun (Physics) A substance which becomes electrically polar when heated, exhibiting opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or exhibiting
pyroelectricity - noun a pyroelectric substance
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- adjective relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity
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Examples
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At its heart are two opposing "pyroelectric" crystals that create a strong electric field when heated or cooled.
Archive 2006-02-01 Mac 2006
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It is also strongly pyroelectric which means that temperature changes can cause the development of positive and negative charges within the crystal.
Quartz 2008
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The crystal is one of a group of pyroelectric materials, so named because they create electric fields when they change temperature.
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Godfried has used the invisible instrument in a number of his performance pieces over the years, including Songbook illustrated above, and the ongoing electronic opera TechnoFaustus, which also uses "pressure transducers, contact microphones, acceleration-sensing devices, pyroelectric transducers... and 1 to 3 naked techno or break dancers".
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It has microphones, and optical and pyroelectric sensors to detect people.
CNET News.com 2011
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Now, according to a report in Live Science, researcher Igor Lubomirsky at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues have discovered another way to control the freezing point of water - via what are called quasi-amorphous pyroelectric thin films.
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Starlab 2.01 collects data from pyroelectric, thermal and photodiode heads using any of
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Sensors: 2 LDR light sensor, 3x bump switch, 2x IR proximity detector, 3x IR reflective sensor, 1x pyroelectric sensor, 1 Sharp IR range finder
MAKE Magazine Matt Mets 2010
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Now, according to a report in Live Science, researcher Igor Lubomirsky at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues have discovered another way to control the freezing point of water - via what are called quasi-amorphous pyroelectric thin films.
Analysis 2010
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Now, according to a report in Live Science, researcher Igor Lubomirsky at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues have discovered another way to control the freezing point of water - via what are called quasi-amorphous pyroelectric thin films.
Analysis 2010
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