English
Etymology
volt + -age , ultimately derived from the name of Alessandro Volta , inventor of the modern battery.
Pronunciation
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Hyphenation: volt‧age
Noun
voltage (countable and uncountable , plural voltages )
( physics ) 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.
Translations
difference in electrostatic potential
Albanian: tension (sq) m
Arabic: جُهْد m ( juhd ) , فُولْتِيَّة f ( voltiyya )
Armenian: լարում (hy) ( larum )
Azerbaijani: gərginlik
Belarusian: напру́жанне n ( naprúžannje ) , напру́га f ( naprúha )
Bengali: বিভব (bn) ( bibhob )
Bulgarian: напреже́ние (bg) n ( naprežénie )
Burmese: ဗို့အား (my) ( bui.a: )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電壓 / 电压 (zh) ( diànyā ) , 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 ) , वोल्टेज m ( volṭej ) , खिंचाव (hi) m ( khiñcāv ) , तनाव (hi) m ( tanāv )
Hungarian: feszültség (hu)
Icelandic: rafspenna f , spenna (is) f , straumstyrkur m
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 )
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Lao: ຄວາມດັນໄຟຟ້າ (lo) ( khuām dan fai fā )
Latvian: spriegums m , voltāža f
Lithuanian: įtampa (lt)
Macedonian: напон m ( napon )
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 )
Urdu: وولٹیج m ( volṭej )
Uyghur: توك بېسىمى ( tok bësimi ) , بېسىم ( bësim )
Uzbek: kuchlanish (uz)
Vietnamese: điện áp
Derived terms
French
Noun
voltage m (plural voltages )
voltage
Synonyms