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.
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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 ampere. It is practically equivalent to 1000/1434 the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15° C.
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