Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Galvanic

Galvanic , adjective

[From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about 1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity: compare French galvanique.]

Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
Collocations (3)
Galvanic battery (Electricity) , 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 (Electricity) , See under Circuit.
Galvanic pile (Electricity) , the voltaic pile. See under Voltaic.