Volt, n. [After Alessandro Volta, the Italian electrician.] (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
the electro- motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature
of 15° C.
||Vol"ta (?), n.; pl. Volte (#). [It. volta a turn, turning, a time.
||See Volt a tread.] (Mus.) A turning; a time; — chiefly used in
||phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more
||times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to
||certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
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Vol"ta-e*lec"tric (?), a. Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or
voltaism.
Vol`ta-e`lec*trom"e*ter (?), n. An instrument for the exact measurement
of electric currents.
Vol"tage (?), n. (Elec.) Electric potential or potential difference,
expressed in volts.
Vol*tag"ra*phy (?), n. [Voltaic + - graphy.] In electrotypy, the act or
art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or
pattern which is made the negative electrode. [R.]