| Volt 1. (n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks. 2. (n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. 3. (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. Thesaurus Entries abampere, abcoulomb, abfarad, abhenry, abohm, abvolt, ampere, ampere-foot, ampere-hour, ampere-minute, atomerg, calorie, coulomb, dinamode, dyne, energid, erg, farad, foot-pound, henry, horsepower-hour, horsepower-year, joule, kilogram-meter, kilovolt-ampere, kilowatt, megacoulomb, megavolt, megawatt, megohm, mho, microhenry, micromho, micromicrofarad, microvolt, microwatt, milliampere, millihenry, millivolt, ohm, ohm-mile, photon, picofarad, quantum, statampere, statcoulomb, statfarad, statvolt, volt, volt-coulomb, volt-second, watt, watt-hour |