voltage

English

Etymology

From volt +‎ -age, ultimately derived from the name of Alessandro Volta, inventor of the modern battery.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊltɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈvɒltɪd͡ʒ/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊltɪd͡ʒ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈvəʉltɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈvɐʉltɪd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -əʊltɪdʒ, -ɒltɪdʒ
• Hyphenation: volt‧age

Noun

voltage (countable and uncountable, plural voltages)

1. (electricity) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.

   The voltage between the wires is too low to produce a spark.

   Be careful when opening high-voltage equipment.

   • 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 659:

     The system voltage is 630 volts d.c. and the supply to the trains is by top-contact third rail with running rail return.

Derived terms

• breakdown voltage
• dual-voltage
• flashover voltage
• Hall voltage
• high-voltage
• high voltage
• high-voltage transmission line
• induced voltage
• inductive voltage divider
• Kirchhoff's voltage law
• load voltage
• multi-voltage
• node-voltage analysis
• open circuit voltage
• partial discharge extinction voltage
• partial discharge inception voltage
• Planck voltage
• ripple voltage
• sparkover voltage
• voltage divider
• voltagelike
• voltage multiplier
• voltage spike

Translations

difference in electrostatic potential

• Albanian: tension (sq) m
• Arabic: جُهْد m (juhd), فُولْتِيَّة f (voltiyya)
• Armenian: լարում (hy) (larum)
• Asturian: voltaxe m
• Azerbaijani: gərginlik
• Belarusian: напру́жанне n (naprúžannje), напру́га f (naprúha)
• Bengali: বিভব (bn) (bibhob)
• Bulgarian: напреже́ние (bg) n (naprežénie)
• Burmese: ဗို့အား (my) (bui.a:)
• Catalan: tensió f, voltatge m
• Cebuano: boltahe
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電壓 / 电压 (zh) (diànyā)

• Czech: napětí (cs) n
• Danish: spænding (da) c
• Dutch: spanning (nl)
• Esperanto: tensio
• Estonian: pinge (et)
• Finnish: jännite (fi)
• French: tension (fr) f, voltage (fr) m
• Galician: voltaxe (gl) f
• Georgian: ძაბვა (ʒabva)
• German: Spannung (de) f
• Greek: τάση (el) f (tási)
• Hebrew: מֶתַח (he) m, ווֹלטָג׳ m
• Hindi: विभवांतर m (vibhvāntar), वोल्टता m (volṭatā), विद्युत्-दाब m (vidyut-dāb)
• Hungarian: feszültség (hu)
• Icelandic: rafspenna f, spenna (is) f, straumstyrkur m
• Indonesian: tegangan (id), tegangan listrik, beda potensial (id), spaning (id), voltase (id)
• Italian: voltaggio (it) m, tensione (it) f
• Japanese: 電圧 (ja) (でんあつ, den'atsu)
• Kazakh: кернеу (kk) (kerneu)
• Khmer: តង់ស្យុង (tɑngsyong)
• Korean: 전압 (ko) (jeonap)
• Kyrgyz: шыкалуу (şıkaluu)
• Lao: ຄວາມດັນໄຟຟ້າ (khuām dan fai fā)
• Latvian: spriegums m, voltāža f
• Lithuanian: įtampa (lt)
• Macedonian: напон m (napon), волта́жа f (voltáža)
• Malay: voltan, voltase (Indonesia)
• Maori: ngaohiko
• Mongolian: хүчдэл (mn) (xüčdel)
• Norwegian: spenning (no) m
• Persian: ولتاژ (fa) (voltâž)
• Piedmontese: voltagg m
• Polish: napięcie (pl) n, woltaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: tensão (pt) f, voltagem (pt) f
• Romanian: tensiune (ro) f, voltaj (ro) n
• Russian: напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije), вольта́ж (ru) m (volʹtáž) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́пон m

  Roman: nápon (sh) m

• Slovak: napätie n
• Slovene: napetost f, voltaža f
• Spanish: voltaje (es) m, tensión (es) f
• Swedish: spänning (sv) c
• Tagalog: boltahe
• Tajik: шиддат (šiddat)
• Thai: โวลเตจ (woon-dtèet), ศักย์ (th) (sàk), ศักย (th) (sàk-gà-yá-), แรงดันไฟฟ้า (rɛɛng-dan-fai-fáa)
• Turkish: gerilim (tr)
• Turkmen: tok güýji
• Ukrainian: напру́га f (naprúha), напру́ження n (naprúžennja), вольта́ж m (volʹtáž)
• Urdu: وولٹیج m (volṭej)
• Uyghur: توك بېسىمى (tok bësimi), بېسىم (bësim)
• Uzbek: kuchlanish (uz)
• Vietnamese: điện áp (vi), hiệu điện thế (vi)
• Welsh: foltedd m

French

Pronunciation

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

voltage m (plural voltages)

1. voltage

   Synonym: tension

Descendants

• → Persian: ولتاژ (voltâž)

Further reading

• “voltage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.