galvanic
adj/ɡælˈvænɪk/
Etymology From French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique.
1
Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.
- [S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 22, in Pink and White Tyranny:
2
Broadly 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.1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in North America:
- 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.1908, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 19, in Salthaven:
1 more example
- But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis.2014 April 4, Zachary Woolfe, “Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014:
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.2005, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, chapter 3, in The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American:
- Synonyms
- galvanical
- Derived terms
- electrogalvanic, galvanic action, galvanically, galvanic anode, galvanic cell, galvanic couple, galvanic series, hydrogalvanic, microgalvanic, optogalvanic, photogalvanic, psychogalvanic
- Related terms
- galvanize