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- English Word Volta-electric Definition Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.
- English Word Volta-electrometer Definition An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.
- English Word Voltage Definition Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
- English Word Voltagraphy Definition In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.
- English Word Voltaic Definition Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
- English Word Voltaic Definition Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
- English Word Voltairean Definition Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author.
- English Word Voltairism Definition The theories or practice of Voltaire.
- English Word Voltaism Definition That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.
- English Word Voltameter Definition An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte.
- English Word Voltaplast Definition A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping.
- English Word Voltatype Definition An electrotype.
- English Word Volte Definition of Volta
- English Word Volti Definition Turn, that is, turn over the leaf.
- English Word Voltigeur Definition A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
- English Word Voltigeur Definition One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.
- English Word Voltmeter Definition An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.
- English Word Voltzite Definition An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.
- English Word Volubilate Definition Alt. of Volubile
- English Word Volubile Definition Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble.
- English Word Volubility Definition The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).
- English Word Voluble Definition Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
- English Word Voluble Definition Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
- English Word Voluble Definition Changeable; unstable; fickle.
- English Word Voluble Definition Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
- English Word Volume Definition A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
- English Word Volume Definition Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
- English Word Volume Definition Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
- English Word Volume Definition Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
- English Word Volume Definition Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.