Index of English words, starting with "vo"

(1) - Volt (n.) 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 ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.
(2) - Volt (n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
(3) - Volt (n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.

(1) - Voltage (n.) Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.

(1) - Voltaic (a.) Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
(2) - Voltaic (a.) 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.