voltaic electricity
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of voltaic electricity
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The accordance between it and voltaic electricity is in this respect complete.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
As heated air discharges common electricity with far greater facility than points, I hoped that voltaic electricity might in this way also be discharged.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
His object now is to compare frictional with voltaic electricity.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
The phenomena of volcanoes, and those of earthquakes, have been considered of late as the effects of voltaic electricity, developed by a particular disposition of heterogeneous strata.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
But when, as we have seen, voltaic electricity entered the field, electricity became a more powerful and tractable servant, and distant intelligent signals became one of its first labors.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
