Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being electricity or electric current produced by chemical action; galvanic.
- adjective Producing electricity by chemical action.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist (1745-1827), who shares with Galvani the honor of having discovered the means of producing an electric current at the expense of chemical action upon one of two united plates of dissimilar metals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta.
- adjective Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity
- adjective a luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a powerful voltaic current.
- adjective an apparatus variously constructed, consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by which a current of electricity is generated whenever the two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a conductor; a galvanic battery. See
Battery , 4. (b), and Note. - adjective See under
Circuit . - adjective a single pair of the connected plates of a battery.
- adjective See the Note under
Electricity . - adjective a kind of voltaic battery consisting of alternate disks of dissimilar metals, separated by moistened cloth or paper. See 5th
Pile . - adjective the protection of a metal exposed to the corrosive action of sea water, saline or acid liquids, or the like, by associating it with a metal which is positive to it, as when iron is galvanized, or coated with zinc.
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- adjective of or relating to
electricity ;galvanic - adjective
producing electricity bychemical action
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- adjective pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action
- noun a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
Etymologies
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[A] By the term voltaic pile, I mean such apparatus or arrangement of metals as up to this time have been called so, and which contain water, brine, acids, or other aqueous solutions or decomposable substances (476.), between their plates.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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We have means of searching into the constitution of water beyond any that are afforded us by the action of heat, and among these one of the most important is that force which we call voltaic electricity, which we used at our last meeting for the purpose of obtaining light, and which we carried about the room by means of these wires.
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Light is produced in flashes, or if the end of the leading wires are connected with two pencils of hard carbon, and brought very near together, then a brilliant light, or arc, called the voltaic arc, is produced.
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There are currents produced by chemical action called voltaic currents; by the action of heat, or thermo-electric currents; by the motion of magnets, or magneto-electric currents.
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Let us from this point of view contemplate the following series of chemical elements, which is a representation of the so-called voltaic series:
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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A few years afterwards Volta devised what is known as the voltaic pile
Electricity for Boys J. S. Zerbe
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It thus makes a complete round, which is called the voltaic
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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Being transferred forward in contrary directions, they produce what is called the voltaic current: and it seems to me impossible to resist the idea that it must be preceded by a _state of tension_ in the fluid, and between the fluid and the zinc; the _first consequence_ of the affinity of the zinc for the oxygen of the water.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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(1745-1827), an electrician, constructed the instrument called the voltaic pile.
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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In consequence of the comparisons that will hereafter arise between wires carrying voltaic and ordinary electricities, and also because of certain views of the condition of a wire or any other conducting substance connecting the poles of a voltaic apparatus, it will be necessary to give some definite expression of what is called the voltaic current, in contradistinction to any supposed peculiar state of arrangement, not progressive, which the wire or the electricity within it may be supposed to assume.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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