Volt: Definition and part of speech

Volt

  1. 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. n. A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
  3. n. A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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