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What is a galvanometer?

What is a galvanometer? Here are some definitions.

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.
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By means of a potentiometer the galvanometer spot may be brought back to the original position.
Caption may be either monophonic or stereophonic, which permits the localization of the sounds source by using a directionl galvanometer.
Further, when the switch was opened the galvanometer was deflected in the reverse direction.
The galvanometer rotates mirrors to change the image that is directed from the workpiece to the camera.
A galvanometer in the projection system scans the screen by displaying all the columns of an image in sequence.
This in turn gives the galvanometer a greater readability, and by keeping the mass and inertia of the actual moving element low, a greater sensitivity.

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