VOLT

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.

2.
n.

A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

3.
n.

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


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