galvanic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]galvanic (comparative more galvanic, superlative most galvanic)
- Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.
- 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 22, in Pink and White Tyranny:
- [S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.
- (by extension) Energetic; vigorous.
- 1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in North America:
- 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.
- 1908, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 19, in Salthaven:
- 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.
- 2014 April 4, Zachary Woolfe, “Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014:
- 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.
- Of a current that is not alternating, as opposed to faradic.
- 2005, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, chapter 3, in The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American:
- Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to galvanism; electric
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French galvanique.
Adjective
[edit]galvanic m or n (feminine singular galvanică, masculine plural galvanici, feminine and neuter plural galvanice)
Declension
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indefinite | galvanic | galvanică | galvanici | galvanice | |||
definite | galvanicul | galvanica | galvanicii | galvanicele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | galvanic | galvanice | galvanici | galvanice | |||
definite | galvanicului | galvanicei | galvanicilor | galvanicelor |