adjective
- Electricity. noting or pertaining to electricity or electric currents, especially when produced by chemical action, as in a cell; galvanic.
- (initial capital letter) of or relating to Alessandro Volta.
noun
- Gur.
adjective
- another word for galvanic (def. 1)
adjective
- of or relating to Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta
- denoting, belonging to, or relating to the Gur group of African languages
noun
- this group of languagesSee also Gur
1813, designating electricity produced by chemical action, formed in recognition of Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), who perfected a chemical process used in electrical batteries, + -ic.