galvanic battery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of galvanic battery
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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This he does by placing a galvanic battery under the body of the engine.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)
He even pretended never to have seen a galvanic battery or a theodolite.
From The Tower of Dago by Jókai, Mór
In short, it was a sort of glorified travesty of a galvanic battery.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur
Interpolar, in-tėr-pō′lar, adj. situated between or connecting the poles, as of a galvanic battery.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
I will bring my galvanic battery with me next time, and just give him a little homoeopathic earthquake.
From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
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