Vocabulary : Volleys to Voltage

Volleys : of Volley
Volost : In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.
Volow : To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.
Volplane : To glide in a flying machine.
Volt : A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks. ;; A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. ;; 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.

Volt ampere : A unit of electric measurement equal to the product of a volt and an ampere. For direct current it is a measure of power and is the same as a watt; for alternating current it is a measure of apparent power.
Volta : A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
Volta-electric : Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, or voltaism.
Volta-electrometer : An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.
Voltage : Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.

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