voltaelectric

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A form of volta-electric — Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.

Scrabble 20

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adjectivevoltaelectric (not comparable)
  1. not comparableuncommonUncommon spelling of volta-electric.

    Electricity.—[…]—voltaelectric induction and magnetoelectric machines.

    1852, Appendix to the Eleventh Volume of the Journals of […] the 1st Session of the 4th Provincial Parliament of Canada. Session, 1852–3, Appendix L, page 20
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    A flat disc, forming the negative pole of an ordinary voltaelectric apparatus, is applied over the pyloric end of the stomach.

    1869, “New Method of Cure in Sea-Sickness”, in S. W. Butler, D. G. Brinton, editors, Half-Yearly Compendium of Medical Science […], volume 3, page 245

    Faraday reported that he could find no other signs of electricity such as shock, spark, heating, or chemical effect, but attributed this to the brief duration and feebleness of the current. The effect in general he characterized as voltaelectric induction.

    1998, Iwan Rhys Morus, “The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution”, in Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34
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