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galvanic
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adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric
The shocking news prompted a reaction
galvanism
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noun
  1. The chemical generation of electricity.
  2. The therapeutic use of electricity.
galvanometer
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noun
  1. (physics) a device used to indicate the presence and direction of a small electric current, especially used to detect a null or balanced condition in a bridge circuit
galvanoscope
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noun
  1. a device used to detect electric currents using the deflection of a magnetic needle
gauss
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noun
  1. The unit of magnetic field strength in cgs systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla.
generator
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noun
  1. An apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
  2. A machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
  3. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
  4. An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
  5. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
GeV
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initialism
  1. (physics) giga-electron volt, 109 eV. A unit used for measuring the energy of subatomic particles.
gigaelectron volt
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noun
  1. One thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV?.
gigahertz
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noun (gigahertz)
  1. One billion hertz, 109 Hz.
gigawatt
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noun
  1. One thousand million ( 109 ) watts, abbreviated as GW.
Gilbert
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male)
grid
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noun
  1. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
  2. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole . — line from the motion picture w:Die Hard, Die Hard
  1. (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
  2. (cartography) A method of mark off, marking off maps into areas.
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