Meaning

Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.
2. (by extension) Energetic; vigorous.
3. Of a current that is not alternating, as opposed to faradic.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.

Word Forms

• more galvanic
• most galvanic

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