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Galvanic

//ɡælˈvænɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.

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

  2. 2
    Energetic; vigorous. broadly

    "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."

  3. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling wordnet
  2. 2
    pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action wordnet

Etymology

From French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique.

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