Voltaic meaning

vōl-tā'ĭk, vŏl-
Of, relating to, or being electricity or electric current produced by chemical action; galvanic.
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Producing electricity by chemical action.
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Designating or of electricity produced by chemical action; galvanic.
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Used in so producing electricity.
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A branch of the Niger-Congo language subfamily, including languages spoken in Burkina Faso and parts of Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Togo.
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Of or relating to electricity; galvanic.
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Producing electricity by chemical action.
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Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta or his work.
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Of or pertaining to Burkina Faso, previously known as Upper Volta.
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Of or pertaining to Gur languages of Africa, from Niger-Congo family.
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Origin of voltaic

Volta +"Ž -ic after Alessandro Volta.

Sentence Examples

  • Davy on the decomposition of the solutions of salts by the voltaic current were turned to account in the water voltameter telegraph of Sdmmering and the modification of it proposed by Schweigger, and in a similar method proposed by Coxe, in which a solution of salts was substituted for water.

  • When such a tube is inserted in series with a single voltaic cell and galvanometer it is found that the resistance of the tube is nearly infinite, provided the filings are not too tightly squeezed.

  • C. Oersted's discovery that a magnetic needle is acted on by a voltaic current.

  • voltaic pile was spreading across Europe.

  • At the receiving station Marconi connected a single voltaic cell B 1 and a sensitive telegraphic relay R in series with his tube of metallic filings C, and interposed certain little coils called choking coils.

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