voltaic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
    Gur.
  2. adjective pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action
    galvanic.
    • a galvanic cell
    • a voltaic (or galvanic) couple

WordNet

Vol*ta"ic adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. voltaïque, It. voltaico.
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc. ✍ See the Note under Galvanism.

Webster 1913