VOLTAIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Voltaic mean? 

• VOLTAIC (noun)
  The noun VOLTAIC has 1 sense:

1. a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana

  Familiarity information: VOLTAIC used as a noun is very rare.

• VOLTAIC (adjective)
  The adjective VOLTAIC has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action

  Familiarity information: VOLTAIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOLTAIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Gur; Voltaic

Hypernyms ("Voltaic" is a kind of...):

Niger-Congo (a family of African language spoken in west Africa)

• VOLTAIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

galvanic; voltaic

Context example:

a voltaic (or galvanic) couple

Domain category:

electricity (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)

Pertainym:

voltage (the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts)

Derivation:

volt (a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it)