galvanic

Adjective

galvanic (comparative more galvanic, superlative most galvanic)

1. Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.
   • [S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 22, in Pink and White Tyranny
2. (broadly) Energetic; vigorous.
   • 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.1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in North America
   • 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.1908, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 19, in Salthaven
3. Of a current that is not alternating, as opposed to faradic.
   • Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.2005, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, chapter 3, in The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American