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Voltaic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or being electricity or electric current produced by chemical action; galvanic.

adj. Producing electricity by chemical action.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. of or relating to electricity; galvanic

adj. producing electricity by chemical action

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. 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.

adj. Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist (1745-1827), who shares with Galvani the honor of having discovered the means of producing an electric current at the expense of chemical action upon one of two united plates of dissimilar metals.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action

n. a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana

Word Usage

"[A] By the term voltaic pile, I mean such apparatus or arrangement of metals as up to this time have been called so, and which contain water, brine, acids, or other aqueous solutions or decomposable substances (476.), between their plates."

Equivalent

voltaic element

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

niger-congo

Cross Reference

voltaic pile voltaic pencil voltaic arch voltaic arc poles of a voltaic pile

Form

photovoltaic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

galvanic high-voltage central-office electrolytic magneto-electric