Galvanism
[gælvәnizm]
Definition
(n.) Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
(n.) The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Voltaic electricity, galvanic electricity, chemico-electricity, dynamic electricity.
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Definition
n. a branch of the science of electricity which treats of electric currents produced by chemical agents.—adj. Galvan′ic belonging to or exhibiting galvanism.—n. Galvanisā′tion.—v.t. Gal′vanīse to subject to the action of a galvanic current: to confer a false vitality upon.—ns. Gal′vanist Gal′vanīser; Galvan′ograph a printing-surface resembling an engraved copper-plate produced by an electrotype process from a drawing made with viscid ink on a silvered plate: an impression taken from such a plate; Galvanog′raphy; Galvanol′ogist a student of galvanology; Galvanol′ogy the science of galvanic phenomena; Galvanom′eter an instrument for measuring the strength of galvanic currents; Galvanom′etry.—adj. Galvanoplas′tic.—ns. Galvanoplas′ty electrotypy; Galvan′oscope an instrument for detecting the existence and direction of an electric current.—Galvanic battery a series of zinc or copper plates susceptible of galvanic action; Galvanised iron the name given to iron coated with zinc to prevent rusting.
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Examples
- Six weeks after he arrived he began his first course of lectures, taking for his subject the history of galvanism, and the various methods of accumulating galvanic influence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He showed the effects of galvanism on the legs of frogs, and exhibited some interesting experiments on the galvanic effects on the solutions o f metals in acids. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He began with the history of Galvanism, de tailed the successive discoveries, and described the different methods of accumulating influence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Three days afterwards Lydgate was at his galvanism again in his Paris chambers, believing that illusions were at an end for him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What is known as galvanism, or animal electricity, also takes its date in the 18th century, to which further reference will be made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The National Institute of France awarded him the prize that had been established by Napoleon for the greatest discovery made by means of galvanism. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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