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galvonic

galvonic is the misspelling of galvanic.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about galvonic

What is galvonic the misspelling of?
Galvonic is the misspelling of galvanic.

Words near galvonic in the dictionary

  1. Galvin
  2. galvinize
  3. galvinoxyl
  4. Galvins
  5. galvo
  6. galvonic
  7. galvonometric
  8. galvos
  9. galvoscanner
  10. galvoscanners
  11. Galwa

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