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[syn: voltaic battery, galvanic battery]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Galvanic \Gal*van"ic\, a. [From Galvani, a professor of
physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about
1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity:
cf. F. galvanique.]
Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of,
galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
[1913 Webster]
Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating
electrical currents by the mutual action of certain
liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic
battery. See Battery.
Galvanic circuit or Galvanic circle. (Elec.) See under
Circuit.
Galvanic pile (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See under
Voltaic.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
galvanic battery
n 1: battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in
series or parallel [syn: voltaic battery, galvanic
battery]