Associations to the word «Pyroelectricity»

Wiktionary

PYROELECTRICITY, noun. (physics) The generation of electric charge as a result of a change in temperature.

Dictionary definition

PYROELECTRICITY, noun. Generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky