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voltaic

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

vol=ta=ic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun voltaic has 1 sense

voltaic(n = noun.communication) gur - a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana;

is a kind of niger-congo

Adjective voltaic has 1 sense

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

Derived form noun volt₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

voltaic, a. [Cf. F. voltaïque, It. voltaico.].

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. [1913 Webster]
Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc. [1913 Webster]
" See the Note under Galvanism." [1913 Webster]

Voltaic arc, a luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a powerful voltaic current. -- Voltaic battery, an apparatus variously constructed, consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by which a current of electricity is generated whenever the two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a conductor; a galvanic battery. See Battery, 4. (b), and Note. -- Voltaic circuit. See under Circuit. -- Voltaic couple or Voltaic element, a single pair of the connected plates of a battery. -- Voltaic electricity. See the Note under Electricity. -- Voltaic pile, a kind of voltaic battery consisting of alternate disks of dissimilar metals, separated by moistened cloth or paper. See 5th Pile. -- Voltaic protection of metals, the protection of a metal exposed to the corrosive action of sea water, saline or acid liquids, or the like, by associating it with a metal which is positive to it, as when iron is galvanized, or coated with zinc.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

voltaic, adj. archaic of electricity from a primary battery; galvanic (voltaic battery).