voltage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From volt + -age, ultimately derived from the name of Alessandro Volta, inventor of the modern battery.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /vəʊltɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /voʊltɪd͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -oʊltɪd͡ʒ
- Hyphenation: volt‧age
Noun
[edit]voltage (countable and uncountable, plural voltages)
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]difference in electrostatic potential
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]voltage m (plural voltages)
Further reading
[edit]- “voltage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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