Abbreviated form of galvanize; to coat with zinc or to stimulate into action.
Shortened form of galvanize, which comes from Luigi Galvani (18th-century scientist). The abbreviation is used primarily in technical and industrial contexts.
Galv is textbook industrial jargon—when workers abbreviate galvanize to galv on job sites, they're creating efficiency in language that reflects the speed of construction!
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