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Volt   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.





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"Volt" Quotes from Famous Books



... commaculatos quis eadem volt? aut quis non omnia mutata praeter victorem? Scilicet milites, quorum sanguine Tarulae Scyrtoque, pessumis servorum, divitiae partae sunt! Itaque maxumam mihi fiduciam parit victor exercitus, cui {5} per tot volnera et labores nihil praeter tyrannum quaesitum est. Nisi forte ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... mult sers. Cure ne volt prendre de sei Car la prenge sevals de tei. Tu es fieblette et tendre chose E es plus fresche que n'est rose. Tu es plus blanche que crystal Que neif que chiet sor glace en val. Mal cuple en fist li Criatur. Tu es trop tendre e il trop dur. Mais neporquant tu es plus sage En grant ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... Pink, an attendant at the Health exhibition in London, was killed on touching a Hochhausen dynamo of 1,000-volt capacity. At that time all electricians agreed that no currents over 600 volts ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
... is very nearly one volt. Its internal resistance is very low. We may estimate it at 1/3 or 1/4 of an ohm for polar surfaces one decimeter square, separated by a distance of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various
... itself. The heart sends over the wire its own telltale record to the machine which registers it. The thing takes us all the way back to Galvani, who was the first to observe and study animal electricity. The heart makes only one three-thousandth of a volt of electricity at each beat. It would take over two hundred thousand men to light one of these incandescent lamps, two million or more to run a trolley- car. Yet just that slight little current is enough to sway the gossamer strand of quartz fibre up there at what we call the 'heart ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... Strangely enough, only gradually did the lights and transportation facilities resume their functions. Most of the dynamos were being inspected by puzzled experts. Here and there the blazing of a group of lights, the ringing of a bell, the response of a volt or ammeter to test, hinted to the masters of the lightnings that their rebellious ...
— The Sign at Six • Stewart Edward White


Words linked to "Volt" :   v, volt-ampere, electron volt, picovolt, potential unit, kV, femtovolt


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