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ed 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.

Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.

An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.

Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.

In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode. [R.]

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.

Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author. J. Morley.

The theories or practice of Voltaire. J. Morley.

ectricity 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.

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.

A wattmeter.

A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping. G. Francis.

An electrotype. [R.]

An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound. Shak.

A dancer of the lavolta.

or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.

ting the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

The positive pole of a voltaic battery.

al arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

receding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the poli…