galvanic battery

noun

, Electricity.

1. battery ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of galvanic battery¹

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

Joule started from quite similar convictions concerning the galvanic battery.

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We had brought with us a full complement of lancets and scalpels, chemicals and test-tubes, galvanic batteries and thermo-electric piles; and we were splendidly equipped for a thorough-going scientific campaign of the first water.

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Then, as though shocked by a galvanic battery, they woke to life.

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He identifies the nervous fluid with galvanism and voltaic electricity, and asserts that by a galvanic battery all the results can be obtained which mesmerism claims as its own.

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It is placed in connection with the wires of the galvanic battery.

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