volt

See also Volt

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vəʊlt/
• Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

Derived terms

• voltage
• voltmeter
• picovolt
• nanovolt
• microvolt
• millivolt
• kilovolt
• megavolt
• gigavolt

Translations

unit of measure

• Arabic: فولت (ar) (fult) m
• Asturian: voltiu (ast)
• Basque: volt (eu)
• Belarusian: вольт (be) (vol’t) m 
• Bengali: ভোল্ট (bn)
• Bulgarian: волт (bg) (volt) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伏特 (cmn) (fútè)

  Min Nan: bó͘-lú-to͘h (nan)

• Czech: volt (cs) m
• Danish: volt (da) c
• Dutch: volt (nl)
• Estonian: volt (et)
• Faroese: volt (fo) n
• Finnish: voltti (fi)
• French: volt (fr) m
• Galician: volt (gl) m, voltio (gl) m
• German: Volt (de) n
• Greek: βολτ (el) (volt) n 
• Hebrew: וולט (he) (volt)
• Hindi: वोल्ट (hi) (vālṭ)
• Hungarian: volt (hu)
• Icelandic: volt (is)
• Interlingua: volt (ia)

• Irish: volta (ga)
• Italian: volt (it) m
• Japanese: ボルト (ja) (boruto)
• Korean: 볼트 (ko) (bolteu)
• Latvian: volts (lv)
• Lithuanian: voltas (lt)
• Persian: ولت (fa) (volt)
• Polish: wolt (pl) m
• Portuguese: volt (pt) m, vóltio (pt) m
• Romanian: volt (ro)
• Russian: вольт (ru) (vol’t) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: волт (sh) m

  Roman: volt (sh) m

• Slovak: volt (sk) m
• Spanish: voltio (es) m
• Swedish: volt (sv) c
• Tamil: வோல்ட்டு (ta)
• Tatar: volt (tt)
• Thai: โวลต์ (th) (wohn)
• Turkish: volt (tr)
• Ukrainian: вольт (uk) (vol’t) m 
• Urdu: وولٹ (ur) (volṭ)
• Vietnamese: vôn (vi)

Anagrams

• VTOL

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Catalan

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. turn, round
2. volt

Related terms

• volta
• voltar

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Czech

Noun

volt m

1. volt

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vɔlt/, X-SAMPA: /vOlt/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

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Galician

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Synonyms

• voltio

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Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola (same meaning).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvolt/
• Hyphenation: volt

Adjective

volt (not comparable)

1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime (past participle of van)

   az egyetem volt tanára - the former professor of the university

Noun

volt (plural voltok)

1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular past of van

   Milyen volt az előadás? - How was the show?

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Italian

Noun

volt m (invariable)

1. volt

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Latin

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular present active indicative of volō

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Old French

Noun

volt m (oblique plural volz, nominative singular volz, nominative plural volt)

1. face

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881)

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

volt m (Cyrillic spelling волт)

1. volt

Declension

    declension of volt

	singular	plural
nominative	volt	volti
genitive	volta	volta
dative	voltu	voltima
accusative	volt	volte
vocative	volte	volti
locative	voltu	voltima
instrumental	voltom	voltima

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Swedish

Noun

volt c

1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.

   Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.

   The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

Declension

Declension of volt

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	volt	volten	volter	volterna
genitive	volts	voltens	volters	volternas

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Tatar

Noun

volt

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

80 meñ volt = 80 thousand volts. [1]

Declension

    declension of volt

Nominative	volt
Genitive	voltnıñ
Dative	voltqa
Accusative	voltnı
Locative	voltta
Ablative	volttan