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


Volt  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.





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"Volt" Quotes from Famous Books



... employ the thermo-electric element with its low potential and a D'Arsonval galvanometer of high sensibility, and in close proximity it is necessary to use the 110-volt current for heating, consequently the highest degree of insulation is necessary to prevent ...
— Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man • Francis Gano Benedict
... in einer Einheit gemessen, welche den Namen 1 Volt (1 V) fhrt und welche numerisch sehr nahe gleich dem 300. Teil[7] der absoluten elektrostatischen Einheit der Spannung oder des Potentials. In Volt gemessen ist im Wasser der Spannungsunterschied zwischen Zink und Kupfer 0,78 V, zwischen Zink und ...
— German Science Reader - An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of - Physics, Chemistry and Engineering • Charles F. Kroeh
... attendant at the Health exhibition in London, was killed on touching a Hochhausen dynamo of 1,000-volt capacity. At that time all electricians agreed that no currents over ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
... ideas circulated strictly in the orbit of equity and reason; she expected nothing from anybody that she did not expect from herself; indeed, she would spare others in far larger proportion. But the sense of obligation which led her to offer herself up to the last volt of her energy made her miserable when she considered that she was not fairly done by in return. Pressed down and running over were the services she offered to the general good, and it was on the ground of the merest justice ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan


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