volt
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- noun
- /voʊlt/
- Specialized
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voltio
- One Volt, a bit sticky, two volts start to smoke.
- voltage of volts
- DC volts
- AC volts
Let's let's make the circuit go with three volts because it's kind of neat so.
- Let's let's make the circuit go with three volts because it's kind of neat so.
- All right, But maybe this drain node is switching by hundreds of volts.
- Then we follow that with serial dot print voltage and serial dot print volts.
- And then for the rest it's just a matter of playing with the Volt frequency table until stuff works.
- That'll give you a bit more headroom because we even observed in that Volt frequency content.
- So this is very nice one top five volts.
Examples
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The vehicle includes a 110-volt outlet that can recharge a laptop computer.
Academic text (2004) -
A single external 12-volt power supply activated the 22 valves under computer control.
Academic text (1994) -
I just put in three volts there and here.
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We'd now have plus one Volt applied to the integrator.
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So remember we've got five volts up here, right?
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So this output is is being pulled up to five volts unless the transistor turns on.
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Most units require liquid nitrogen and 110 volts of electricity to function.
Academic text (1996) -
Her cell phone and stereo were wired up to two deep-cycle six-volt batteries below the window.
Fiction book (1998) -
Informative displays tell viewers what a watt, a volt, and an amp are.
Academic text (1995) -
The voltage produced by the battery is measured in volts.
Synonyms
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A symbol that shows how many volts electricity has
Compounds
- Specialized
A unit for electrical power in alternating current circuits equal to one volt times one ampere
How High
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Volt is named after the Italian scientist Alessandro Volta, who helped invent the early battery. Think of a volt and the related word voltage as Volta's 'electric pressure' that pushes current from one point to another, which is why a volt measures the strength of that electrical push.