solar collector
1
4.6
- noun
- /ˈsoʊlər kəˈlɛktər/
- Specialized
:
colector solar
- This advancement in solar power technology enabled William J. Bailey of the Carnegie Steel Company to invent a solar collector with copper coils and an insulated box, which is roughly the same design used for solar panels today.
- install a solar collector
- heat from solar collectors
- large solar collectors
Examples
-
The trailers on the left are portable power units to back up the 100-acre farm of solar collectors.
Blog text (15) -
Nowadays, Cyprus is cited as the country with the highest solar collector area installed per inhabitant worldwide (Kalogirou et al., 2006).
Academic text (2009) -
In a new subdivision in California where solar collectors are rolled out on every roof, average electric bills are down 50 percent.
Academic text (2007) -
They have already ordered long "studies" of the environmental impact of putting up wind turbines and large solar collectors.
Blog text (4) -
Ericsson's proposal to cover rooftops with solar collectors has been put into practice.
-
It involved, among them, inspecting, cleaning, and replacing the panels on the solar collectors.
Fiction book (2001) -
The heat produced by these inexpensive solar collectors can then be used for heat, hot water, A/C, and refrigeration (using simple, no moving parts, absorption chillers).
Blog text (25) -
Figure 2 is an aerial photograph of the SEGS plants (III through VII) in Kramer Junction, Calif., which have more than 1 million square meters of solar collectors.
Academic text (1994) -
The solar collector on the rooftop efficiently heated the water for our morning showers.
-
Using solar collectors, the house generates enough power to run the entire household on sunny days.
Synonyms
1
6.7
A machine that uses a large curved mirror to focus sunlight and make very high heat
A large curved mirror that focuses sunlight to one point to make high heat for energy or experiments
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
solar + collector
The meaning of 'solar collector' is directly deducible from 'solar' (relating to the sun) plus 'collector' (something that collects); together they straightforwardly denote a device that collects solar energy. This is a regular noun+noun/adj+noun composition found cross-linguistically and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Solar collector comes from the simple picture of solar, meaning the sun, and collector, meaning something that 'gathers'. It is like a bowl or mirror that 'collects' sunlight and focuses it to make heat, so the term means a device that gathers sunlight to reach high temperatures.