volt
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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.
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We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.
A circuit was used consisting of a battery, the body to be tested, and a galvanometer; the electromotive force of the battery used was 1 volt at first, then 100 volts, and then again 1 volt.
Advertisement - The Electrician, 1st June 1934 Between the mid 1930s until the 1950s, 1000 ohms per volt became a de facto standard of sensitivity for radio work and this figure was often quoted on service sheets.
A group of vultures is called a wake, committee, venue, kettle, or volt.
An electron volt is a measure of energy that physicists use to describe the masses of particles.