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adjectivefaradic (comparative more faradic, superlative most faradic)
comparative more faradic · superlative most faradic
- natural sciencesOf or pertaining to electricity, especially to electrical induction.
- Of a current that is alternating, as opposed to galvanic.
Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.
2005, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, chapter 3, in The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American
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From Faraday + -ic, for Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.
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