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- Volta - n. - 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.
- Volta-electric - a. - Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.
- Volta-electrometer - n. - An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.
- Voltage - n. - Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
- Voltagraphy - n. - In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.
- Voltaic - a. - Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
- Voltaic - a. - Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
- Voltairean - a. - Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author.
- Voltairism - n. - The theories or practice of Voltaire.
- Voltaism - n. - That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.
- Voltameter - n. - An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.
- Voltaplast - n. - A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping.
- Voltatype - n. - An electrotype.