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galvanic battery

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Noun1.galvanic batterygalvanic battery - battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel
voltaic battery
electric battery, battery - a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
dry battery - a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells
storage battery, accumulator - a voltaic battery that stores electric charge
galvanic cell, primary cell, voltaic cell - an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy; cannot be recharged


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Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint- stock company; our law, our primary assemblies, our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric jar, the prism, and the chemist's retort; in which we seek now only an economical use.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
There are fourteen water-mills, six steam-engines, and a galvanic battery, always a-working upon it, and they can't make it fast enough, though the men work so hard that they die off, and the widows is pensioned directly, with twenty pound a-year for each of the children, and a premium of fifty for twins.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
At first they wore the aspect of charity, and seemed white and slender angels who would save me; but then, all at once, there came a most deadly nausea over my spirit, and I felt every fibre in my frame thrill as if I had touched the wire of a galvanic battery, while the angel forms became meaningless spectres, with heads of flame, and I saw that from them there would be no help.
The Pit and the Pendulum by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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