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Definition of 'Voltaic'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) voltaic
of or pertaining to electricity or electric currents, esp. when produced by chemical action, as in a cell; galvanic.

Etymology: (1805–15; after A. Volta ; see -ic)

Definition of 'Voltaic'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) Gur, Voltaic
a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana

2. (adj) voltaic, galvanic
pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action
"a galvanic cell"; "a voltaic (or galvanic) couple"

Definition of 'Voltaic'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Voltaic
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; as, voltaic electricity

2. (adj) Voltaic
of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc

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