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Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
<physics> Galvanic battery, the voltaic pile. See Voltaic.
Origin: From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about 1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity: cf. F. Galvanique.
(01 Mar 1998)
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