Definition of Piezo

1. produced by piezoelectricity (straining a crystal) [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piezo

pietisms
pietist
pietistic
pietistical
pietistically
pietists
pietra dura
pietra serena
piets
piety
pietàs
piewipe
piewipes
piewoman
piewomen
piezo (current term)
piezo-
piezo effect
piezochemical
piezochemistry
piezocoefficient
piezocoefficients
piezoelectric
piezoelectric crystal
piezoelectric effect
piezoelectric effects
piezoelectrical
piezoelectrically
piezoelectricity
piezoelectrics

Literary usage of Piezo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"It thus appears that an extremely rough wall reflects sounds of medium pitch as well as if it were mathematically smooth. 6. On the piezo- ..."

2. The Fundamental Principles of Petrology by Ernst Weinschenk (1916)
"piezo-contact-metamorphism.—If the phenomena of contact- metamorphism be observed in regions where orogenic processes accompanied the solidification of the ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
"NICOLSON • ABSTRACT OF PAPER The piezo-electric effect is an ... The paper presents an exposition of piezo-electricity and related optical and other ..."

4. A Treatise on Electricity by Frederick Bernard Pidduck (1916)
"... when the greatest sensitiveness is not required, as they require no dipping to make them conduct. 44. Contact potential. piezo- and pyro-electricity. ..."

5. Transactions (1919)
"The paper presents an exposition of piezo-electricity and related optical ... Special reference is made to the comparatively large piezo-electric effects ..."

6. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"Having gone only so far from ' senary' symmetry we have exactly the triple, or three-pair anti-symmetry required for the piezo-electricity of quartz ..."

7. The Characters of Crystals: An Introduction to Physical Crystallography by Alfred Joseph Moses (1899)
"... developed is Q — Q' = CD, that is a quantity sufficient to charge a condenser of known capacity C to a known potential D. THEORY OF PYRO- AND PiEzo- ..."

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