galvanic battery

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galvanic battery - battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel

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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"Bless my galvanic battery! he sent me a telegram at one o'clock this morning saying he'd be sure to meet us in New York.

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It was like a corpse artificially convulsed by means of a galvanic battery. The contrast between its superhuman activity and its silence was no less than hideous!

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'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.