Volt

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Volt \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 amp[`e]re. It is practically
     equivalent to 1000/1434 the electro-motive force of a
     standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15[deg] C.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Volt \Volt\, n. [F. volte; cf. It. volta. See {Vault}.]
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     1. (Man.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going
        sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
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     2. (Fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  volt
       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 [syn: {V}]