Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pyroelectric

Pyroelectric , adjective

[Pyro- + electric.]

(Physics) Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.

Pyroelectric , noun

(Physics) A substance which becomes electrically polar when heated, exhibiting opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.