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US
/ˈvoʊɫtə/
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NOUN
- Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)
- a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin
How To Use Volta In A Sentence
- From a mail-order house she ordered a battery-operated galvanic device which applied the stimulation of low-voltage electrical current to his paralyzed limbs.
- The LM334 is 3-terminal adjustable current source featuring 10000:1 range in operating current, excellent current regulation and a wide dynamic voltage range of 1V to 40V.
- The distich caused discussion regarding the quantity of "hic", but the pope defended the prosody of Voltaire who confirmed his opinion by a quotation from Virgil which he said ought to be the epitaph of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
- Travolta is a licensed jet pilot and owns a Learjet.
- And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
- Other situations affecting power quality are transients or spikes, surges or over-voltages, noise and sags or brownouts.
- Dr Lotto has invented special paving slabs made of photovoltaic cells and recycled glass to harvest sunlight and to help power the structure. Times, Sunday Times
- A quartz crystal resonator depends on the piezo-electric effect to work. This effect converts a mechanical stress in a crystal to a voltage and vice versa.
- Obstacle distance measurement is one of the key techniques for the deicing robot on high voltage transmission line.