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Seebeck effect definition

See·beck· effect (zā′bek′, sē′-)

  1. the production of a current in a circuit when junctions composed of unlike metals have different temperatures, as in a thermocouple
  2. the current so produced

Etymology: after T. J. Seebeck (1770-1831), Ger physicist

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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