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Noun: galvanisation  ,gal-vu-nu'zey-shun [N. Amer], ,gal-vu-nI'zey-shun [Brit]
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: galvanization)
  1. Stimulation with a galvanic current
    - galvanization
     
  2. Stimulation that arouses a person to lively action
    "the unexpected news produced a kind of galvanisation of the whole team";
    - galvanization
     
  3. Either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting
    - galvanization

Derived forms: galvanisations

Type of: application, coating, covering, stimulation

Encyclopedia: Galvanisation