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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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.
  2. n. Sports A circular movement executed by a horse in manège.
  3. n. Sports A sudden movement made in avoiding a thrust in fencing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. In fencing, a sudden movement or leap to avoid a thrust.
  3. 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

  1. 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

  1. n. (Man.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
  2. n. (Fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
  3. 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

  1. 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

  1. Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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  • “It must be remembered that the volt is the practical unit of electro-motive force.”

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  1. amplifier
  2. inverter
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  1. Bolt
  2. Colt
  1. Holt
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  2. holt
  1. jolt
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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. farad
  2. volte
  3. switching power supply
  4. electron-volt
  5. coulomb
  6. Henry
  7. volt-ampere
  8. meg
  9. microvolt
  1. millivolt
  2. clock-meter
  3. abvolt
  4. weber
  5. TeV
  6. ampere
  7. electron volt
  8. GeV
  9. eV
  1. MeV
  2. keV
  3. Volta
  4. V
  5. siemens
  6. var
  7. ohm
  8. VA
  9. henry
  1. picovolt
  2. Ev
  3. femtovolt
  4. kilovolt-ampere
  5. mv
  6. nanovolt
  7. conte alessandro giuseppe antonio anastasio volta
  8. conte alessandro volta
  9. count alessandro volta
  1. f
  2. h
  3. volt ampère
  4. round
  5. abstat
  6. millivoltmeter
  7. unit
  8. voltampere
  9. voltammeter
  1. voltmeter

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