galvanic

UK /ɡælˈvænɪk/ US /ɡælˈvænɪk/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.

[S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.

2

Energetic; vigorous.

Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck.

Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt.

3

Of a current that is not alternating, as opposed to faradic.

Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.

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