volt

See also: Volt

English

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volt

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vəʊlt/, /vɒlt/

  • Audio (Southern England); /vɒlt/:

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /voʊlt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈvəʉlt/, /ˈvɐʉlt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐʉlt/
• Rhymes: -əʊlt, -ɒlt
• Homophone: vault (in some accents)

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

2. 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
   • 1900, Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 149, page 461:

     If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.

   • 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.

   • 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015‎, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:

     Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A bright yellow-green colour often used in Nike products.
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Derived terms

• electron volt
• gigaelectron volt
• gigavolt
• kilovolt
  • megaelectron volt
• megavolt
• microvolt
• millivolt
• nanovolt
• picovolt
• teraelectron volt
• voltage
• volt-ampere
• voltmeter

Translations

unit of measure

Albanian: volt (sq) m Arabic: فولْت m (volt), ڤولْت m (volt) (rare spelling), ڥولْت m (volt) (rare, regional spelling) Armenian: վոլտ (hy) (volt) Asturian: voltiu Azerbaijani: volt Basque: volt Belarusian: вольт m (volʹt) Bengali: ভোল্ট (bn) (bhōlṭo) Bulgarian: волт (bg) m (volt) Burmese: ဗို့ (bui.) Chinese: Hokkien: (please verify) bó͘-lú-to͘h Mandarin: 伏特 (zh) (fútè), 伏 (zh) (fú) Czech: volt (cs) m Danish: volt c Dutch: volt (nl) m Esperanto: volto (eo) Estonian: volt (et) Faroese: volt n Finnish: voltti (fi) French: volt (fr) m Galician: volt (gl) m, voltio m Georgian: ვოლტი (volṭi) German: Volt (de) n Greek: βολτ (el) n (volt) Hebrew: ווֹלְט (he) m (volt) Hindi: वोल्ट m (volṭ) Hungarian: volt (hu) Icelandic: volt (is) Indonesian: volt (id) Interlingua: volt Irish: volta Italian: volt (it) m Japanese: ボルト (ja) (boruto) Kazakh: вольт (volt) Khmer: វ៉ុល (km) (vol) Korean: 볼트 (bolteu) Kyrgyz: вольт (ky) (volt) Lao: ໂວລ (wōn) Latvian: volts m Lithuanian: voltas m Macedonian: волт m (volt) Malay: volt Maori: wae ngaohiko Mongolian: Cyrillic: вольт (mn) (volʹt) Norwegian: Bokmål: volt (no) m Persian: Iranian Persian: وُلْت (volt) Polish: wolt (pl) m Portuguese: volt (pt) m Romanian: volt (ro) m Russian: вольт (ru) m (volʹt) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: во̏лт m Roman: vȍlt (sh) m Slovak: volt (sk) m Slovene: volt (sl) m Spanish: voltio (es) m Swedish: volt (sv) c Tagalog: bolta, boltiyo Tajik: волт (volt) Tamil: வோல்ட்டு (vōlṭṭu) Tatar: вольт (wolʹt) Telugu: వోల్టు (vōlṭu) Thai: โวลต์ (th) (wóon) Tibetan: ཝོལ (wol) Turkish: volt (tr) Turkmen: wolt Ukrainian: вольт m (volʹt) Urdu: وولْٹ m (volṭ) Uyghur: ۋولت (wolt) Uzbek: volt (uz) Vietnamese: vôn (vi)

Etymology 2

From French volte.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

volte (dressage)

Wikipedia

1. (archaic, equestrianism) A circular movement in which the horse goes round in a small circle.
2. (archaic, fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust; a parry.

Verb

volt (third-person singular simple present volts, present participle volting, simple past and past participle volted)

1. (archaic, equestrianism) To perform this movement.
2. (archaic, fencing) To perform this movement.

References

• “volt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• LVOT, VTOL

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɔl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvɔlt]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Homophones: bol, vol

Etymology 1

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *volŭtus, from Latin volūtus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. turn, round

   fer un volt ― to go for a stroll

Related terms

• volta
• voltar

Etymology 2

Named for Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Further reading

• “volt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “volt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “volt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English volt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolt]
• Rhymes: -olt

Noun

volt m inan

1. volt

Declension

Declension of volt (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	volt	volty
genitive	voltu	voltů
dative	voltu	voltům
accusative	volt	volty
vocative	volte	volty
locative	voltu	voltech
instrumental	voltem	volty

Related terms

• See voluta

Further reading

• “volt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “volt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English volt.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

1. volt (unit)

Derived terms

• elektronvolt

Faroese

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English volt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔlt/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From English volt.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

   Synonym: voltio