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volt |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Volt \Volt\, n. [F. volte; cf It volta. See {Vault}.] 1. (Man.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks. 2. (Fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Volt \Volt\, n. [After Alessandro Volta, the Italian electrician.] (Elec.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one amp[`e]re. It is practically equivalent to 1000/1434 the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15[deg] C. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: volt n : a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it [syn: {V}]
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