galvanic battery

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. battery.

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Etymology

Origin of galvanic battery

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

The poles of a galvanic battery may be applied to a dead body, and that body made to imitate the functions of life.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

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)

Then, as though shocked by a galvanic battery, they woke to life.

From The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance by Chapman, Allen

Imagine a rod of soft iron of any size to be wound with a coil of wire, the ends of the wire to be so left that they may be connected with a galvanic battery.

From The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)

But chemical action, as in the galvanic battery, produces a still more energetic and uninterrupted current.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward