Dry pile Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; called also Zamboni's , from the names of the two earliest constructors of it.
Definitions
  1. . See under Dry.

Webster 1913