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galvanometer

[gal″vah-nom´ĕ-ter]

an instrument for measuring current by electromagnetic action.

gal·va·nom·e·ter

(gal'vă-nom'ĕ-tĕr),

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current.

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gal·va·nom·e·ter

(gal'vă-nom'ĕ-ter)

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

Galvani,

Luigi, Italian physician and anatomist, 1737-1798.

galvanic bath - water bath that is charged with galvanic current.

galvanic current - continuous one-direction electric current.

galvanic skin response - skin's response to electric stimulation. Synonym(s): electrodermal response

galvanic-faradic test - an electrodiagnostic test of muscles.

galvanism - oral manifestations of direct current electricity occurring when dental restorations with dissimilar electric potentials (such as silver and gold) are placed in the mouth. Synonym(s): voltaism

galvanometer - an instrument used to measure current.

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The Philippine Army has adopted Sentildeoron's design and funded the mass production of the local galvanometers and IED disruptors.

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The QS-30 moving magnet galvanometer is the first galvo to include a ceramic rotor for the purpose of reducing rotor inertia and increasing rotor stiffness.

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QD-2000 Servo Amplifiers are tested and tuned with serial number matched galvanometer and mirror to customer specifications.

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In the early sixties, mirrors were mounted on large galvanometer coils and driven with a series of increasing pulses from storage capacitors.

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The position of the beam can be very precisely controlled with a set of galvanometer driven mirrors.

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Besides controlling the galvanometer scanners and the piezo stage for focus control, the FPGA adjusts the timing between the excitation and the STED laser pulses, and comprises a photon counting scheme with temporally gated detection [15,16].

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The LMS has two mirrors with 1064 nm reflective coating, where each mirror is mounted on a galvanometer. Hence, the LMS was used to maneuver the laser pulse to the sensing point.

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In 2005, Sabo [8] reported the advantages of digital servo amplifiers for controlling of a galvanometer based on optical scanning system.

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Controlled potential electrolysis experiments were conducted at -0.28 V versus Ag/AgCl electrode at pH 4.0 and the corresponding decay was noted using a galvanometer. The electrolysis was allowed to proceed virtually to completion.

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P Hackel, "Mitigation of laser damage growth in fused silica with a galvanometer scanned C[O.sub.2] laser," in Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, vol.

Investigation of control of residual stress induced by C[O.sub.2] laser-based damage mitigation of fused silica optics

The bridge was initially balanced then the output signal from the bridge was recorded with the galvanometer; this procedure was carried out for each weight individually, and the strain corresponding to each weight was calculated using the following equation: