VOLTAIC

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.
a.

Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.