Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The International System unit of electric potential and electromotive force, equal to the difference of electric potential between two points on a conducting wire carrying a constant current of one ampere when the power dissipated between the points is one watt. See Table at measurement.
- n. Sports A circular movement executed by a horse in manège.
- n. Sports A sudden movement made in avoiding a thrust in fencing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the manège, a round or cirecular tread; a gait of two treads made by a horse going sidewise round a center, with the head turned outward.
- n. In fencing, a sudden movement or leap to avoid a thrust.
- n. The practical unit of electromotive force. It is 10 absolute units of E. M. F. on the centimeter-gram system, and is a little less than the E. M. F. of a Daniell cell.
Wiktionary
- n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Man.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
- n. (Fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
- n. (Elec.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampère. It is practically equivalent to 1000/1434 the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15° C.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it
Etymologies
- Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. (Wiktionary)
- After Count Alessandro Volta.French volte, from Italian volta, turn, from voltare, to turn, leap; see vault2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Primary electromotive force and voltage drop have the same unit which is called volt - V in honour of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745 - 1827).”
“It must be remembered that the volt is the practical unit of electro-motive force.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘volt’.
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EN-HU - homographs
Words that are spelt the same way in English and in Hungarian but have independent origins and mean something entirely different. Not included are proper names (Anya, Ken, Pete - Kiss, Soma, Vince,...
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shock
words associated with electric shock.
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
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Vocabulary
My ever expanding vocabulary...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
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the best
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second meanings
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physics words
strangeness, quark, neutrino, uncertainty, meson, antimatter, accelerator, entropy, excitation, ohm, volt, amp and 24 more...
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measure my words
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person or measurement
By 'or' I mean 'and'
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measurements
c, kelvin, celcius, fahrenheit, foot, inch, metre, ohm, volt, ampere, watt, gram and 14 more...
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