galvanic

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡælˈvænɪk/

Adjective

galvanic (comparative more galvanic, superlative most galvanic)

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. 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.

Synonyms

• galvanical

Derived terms

• electrogalvanic
• galvanic action
• galvanically
• galvanic anode
• galvanic cell
• galvanic couple
• galvanic series
• hydrogalvanic
• microgalvanic
• optogalvanic
• photogalvanic
• psychogalvanic

 

Related terms

• galvanize

Translations

of or pertaining to galvanism; electric

• Afrikaans: galvanies
• Armenian: գալվանական (hy) (galvanakan)
• Bulgarian: галваничен (galvaničen)
• Catalan: galvànic
• Czech: galvanický (cs) m
• Dutch: galvanisch (nl)
• Estonian: galvaaniline
• Finnish: galvaaninen (fi)
• French: galvanique (fr)
• Georgian: გალვანური (galvanuri)
• German: galvanisch (de)
• Greek: γαλβανικός (el) (galvanikós)
• Ido: galvanala (io)
• Italian: galvanico (it)
• Kazakh: гальваникалық (galvanikalyq)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gal vanî (ku)

• Latin: galvanicus
• Lithuanian: galvaninis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: galvanisk

  Nynorsk: galvanisk

• Polish: galwaniczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: galvânico
• Romanian: galvanic (ro)
• Russian: гальвани́ческий (ru) (galʹvaníčeskij)
• Spanish: galvánico
• Swedish: galvanisk

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French galvanique.

Adjective

galvanic m or n (feminine singular galvanică, masculine plural galvanici, feminine and neuter plural galvanice)

1. galvanic

Declension

Declension of galvanic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	galvanic		galvanică	galvanici	galvanice
	definite	galvanicul		galvanica	galvanicii	galvanicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	galvanic		galvanice	galvanici	galvanice
	definite	galvanicului		galvanicei	galvanicilor	galvanicelor