voltaic battery

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voltaic battery - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Galvanic \Gal*van"ic\, a. [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.]
     Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of,
     galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
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     Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating
        electrical currents by the mutual action of certain
        liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic  battery
        . See Battery.
  
     Galvanic circuit or Galvanic circle. (Elec.) See under
        Circuit.
  
     Galvanic pile (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See under
        Voltaic.
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  Voltaic \Vol*ta"ic\, a. [Cf. F. volta["i]que, It. voltaico.]
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     1. Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised
        apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical
        action, and established this branch of electric science;
        discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
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     2. Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as,
        voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
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     Note: See the Note under Galvanism.
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     Voltaic arc, a luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed
        between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a
        powerful voltaic current.
  
     Voltaic battery, an apparatus variously constructed,
        consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar
        metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and
        subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by
        which a current of electricity is generated whenever the
        two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a
        conductor; a galvanic battery. See Battery, 4.
        (b), and Note.
  
     Voltaic circuit. See under Circuit.
  
     Voltaic couple or Voltaic element, a single pair of the
        connected plates of a battery.
  
     Voltaic electricity. See the Note under Electricity.
  
     Voltaic pile, a kind of voltaic battery consisting of
        alternate disks of dissimilar metals, separated by
        moistened cloth or paper. See 5th Pile.
  
     Voltaic protection of metals, the protection of a metal
        exposed to the corrosive action of sea water, saline or
        acid liquids, or the like, by associating it with a metal
        which is positive to it, as when iron is galvanized, or
        coated with zinc.
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voltaic battery - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  voltaic battery
      n 1: battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in
           series or parallel [syn: voltaic battery, galvanic battery
           ]