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Volt

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Volt has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Voltn. [F. volte; cf. It. volta. See Vault.].
  •  A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.  [1913 Webster]
Voltn. [After Alessandro Volta, the Italian electrician.].
     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 1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Volt, n. the SI unit of electromotive force, the difference of potential that would carry one ampere of current against one ohm resistance.

Usage
Abbr.: V.
Volt, v. & n.
--v.intr. Fencing make a volte.
--n. var. of VOLTE.

Etymology
F volter (as VOLTE)
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