galvanic
/ɡælˈvænɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.37 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.
adj
Of a current that is not alternating, as opposed to faradic.
Example Sentences
- "[S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion."
- "Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck."
- "Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt."
- "But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis."
- "Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: galvanique
Inflected Forms
more galvanic (comparative)
most galvanic (superlative)