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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