volt

See also: Volt

§English

Wikipedia

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəʊlt/
• Rhymes: -əʊlt

§Etymology 1

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

§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 m (fult)
• Asturian: voltiu
• Basque: volt
• Belarusian: вольт m (vol’t)
• Bengali: ভোল্ট
• Bulgarian: волт (bg) m (volt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伏特 (zh) (fútè)

  Min Nan: bó͘-lú-to͘h

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

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

  Cyrillic: волт m

  Roman: volt (sh) m

• Slovak: volt m
• Spanish: voltio (es) m
• Swedish: volt (sv) c
• Tamil: வோல்ட்டு (vōlṭṭu)
• Tatar: volt
• Thai: โวลต์ (wohn)
• Turkish: volt (tr)
• Ukrainian: вольт m (vol’t)
• Urdu: وولٹ (volṭ)
• Vietnamese: vôn

§Etymology 2

French volte

§Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.
2. (fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

§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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§Dutch

§Pronunciation

• Audio

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§Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

1. volt (unit)

§Derived terms

• elektronvolt

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§Faroese

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

§Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

§Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

§Declension

n3	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	volt	voltið	volt	voltini
Accusative	volt	voltið	volt	voltini
Dative	volti	voltinum	voltum	voltunum
Genitive	volts	voltsins	volta	voltanna

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§French

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔlt/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

§Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

§External links

• “volt” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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§Galician

§Noun

volt m (plural [please provide])

1. volt

§Synonyms

• voltio

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§Hungarian

§Etymology

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

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvolt/

• Audio

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• 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 or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, 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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§Portuguese

§Alternative forms

• vóltio (rare)

§Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt (unit of measure)

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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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§Slovak

§Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

§Noun

volt m (genitive singular voltu, nominative plural volty), declension pattern dub

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

§Declension

Declension of volt

	singular	plural
nominative	volt	volty
genitive	voltu	voltov
dative	voltu	voltom
accusative	volt	volty
locative	volte	voltoch
instrumental	voltom	voltmi

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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