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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



... 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 ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan
... par nature nen ad que une jointure, Il ne pot pas gesir quant il se volt dormir, Ke si cuchet estait par sei nen leverait; Pur ceo li stot apuier, el lui del cucher, U a arbre u a ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent


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