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Definition: Volta |
VoltaNoun1. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Volta" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Volta \Vol"ta\, noun; plural Volte. [Italian volta turn, turning, time. See Volt tread.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: VoltaSynonyms: Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (n), Conte Alessandro Volta (n), Count Alessandro Volta (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Ghana, Volta Lake, the largest man-made lake in the world, extends from the Akosombo Dam in southeastern Ghana to the town of Yapei, 520 kilometers (325 mi.) to the north. The lake generates electricity, provides inland transportation, and is a potentially valuable resource for irrigation and fish farming.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Volta."
Crosswords: Volta |
| English words defined with "Volta": Burkina Faso ♦ centime, Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Conte Alessandro Volta, Count Alessandro Volta ♦ galvanic pile ♦ pile ♦ Upper Volta franc ♦ voltaic pile, Volte. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Volta": Reading frame ♦ volta effect. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Volta" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Volta), Italian (arch, archway, phrase, piece, roof, time, turn, vault, vaulted), Malay (volt), Portuguese (bend, bent, circuit, detour, doge, gyropilot, jaunt, meander, regress, return, revolution, round, roundabout, slue, spire, stroll, sweep, tour, turn, turnabout, turning, twiddle, twirl, twist, wimple, winding), Portuguese Brazilian (return, turn), Turkish (round turn). |
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Movie/TV Titles | La Prima volta sull'erba (1974) Questa volta ti faccio ricco! (1974) Ancora una volta prima di lasciarci (1973) A Volta de Beto Rockfeller (1973) | |
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 | This man being led through a village in Upper Volta is blind as a result of river blindness ... / UN/WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by R. Witlin.. |  | ... villagers of Djipologo, Upper Volta, who have lost their sight due to onchocerciasis. / WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Onchocerciasis victim in the village of Tienkura, Upper Volta. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann.. |  | Alexander Graham Bell and others at ground breaking for the Volta Bureau building in Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Volta, Illinois. House.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Volta, Illinois. Residential section.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Children | Ghana | It is found primarily among the ethnic Ewe group in the Volta Region. (references) |
Ghana | Shrines rarely have more than 4 girls serving their atonements at any one time, and there were no more than 100 girls serving their atonement periods at Trokosi shrines throughout the Volta Region at year's end. (references) | |
Ghana | Reports on the number of women and girls bound to various Trokosi shrines vary; according to some reports, there were more than 2,000 women or girls in Trokosi shrines, but according to other international observers there are no more than 100 girls serving at Trokosi shrines throughout the Volta Region. (references) | |
Economic History | Burkina Faso | The largest river is the Mouhoun (Black Volta), which is partially navigable by small craft. (references) |
Ghana | Most Ghanaians descended from migrating tribes that probably came down the Volta River valley at the beginning of the 13th century. (references) | |
Ghana | Ghana experienced a severe power shortage in 1998 due to low water levels in Lake Volta and consequent reduced hydroelectric power production. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | In November 2000, police shot and killed an alleged fuel smuggler in the Afedido in the Volta Region. (references) |
Ghana | The Prison Service Council visited Central and Volta Region prison facilities in early 1999. Following these inspections, the Council suggested that prison authorities adopt a more humane approach to dealing with prisoners. (references) | |
Ghana | There were no reports of progress in the investigations of the February and April 1999 beatings of two Kumasi men by off-duty soldiers and "machomen." There were no developments in the May 1999 case of a man shot by customs officers in Dodo-Ammanfrom, Volta Region. (references) | |
Minorities | Ghana | The Government has a ban on firearms in the Northern Region and northern part of the Volta Region. (references) |
Ghana | In 1997 in response to reports of latent insecurity, the PPNT extended its activities to some northern parts of the Volta Region and supervised a peace accord among all parties to the conflict there. (references) | |
Political Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Furthermore, the Court maintained that Ouattara had considered himself a citizen of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) earlier in his career. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | With the exception of the Northern areas (where a subsidiary of the Volta River Authority is the supplier), the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), is responsible for the distribution of electricity. (references) |
Women | Ghana | In April a man living in Tongor in the Volta Region chopped off the hands of an elderly aunt, claiming that she was a witch. (references) |
Ghana | In August 2000, an 80-year-old woman in the Volta region was brought before a community tribunal when a local teacher accused her of being a witch. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ghana | The fishing industry on Lake Volta has a particularly high number of child laborers engaged in potentially hazardous work. (references) |
Ghana | The most common forms of internal trafficking involves boys from the Northern Region going to work in the fishing communities in the Volta Region or in small mines in the west and girls from the north and east going to the cities of Accra and Kumasi to work as domestic helpers, porters, and assistants to local traders. (references) | |
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| "Volta" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Volta" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Volta": Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta ♦ Conte Alessandro Volta ♦ count Alessandro Volta ♦ upper volta ♦ upper Volta franc ♦ volta effect ♦ volta electric tension. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Volta": Volta-electric, Volta-electrometer. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Volta"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 伏". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | Italský Fyzik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | republikken Oevre Volta (The Republic of the Upper Volta, Upper-Volta), Oevre Volta (The Republic of the Upper Volta, Upper-Volta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Volta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Voltao. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Volta Noire (Black Volta), tension Volta (volta electric tension, voltage), La République du Burkina-Faso (The Republic of the Upper Volta), ex Haute-Volta (The Republic of the Upper Volta), effet volta (volta effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Obervolta (The Republic of the Upper Volta, Upper Volta, Upper-Volta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tensione elettrica (volta electric tension, voltage), Repubblica dell'Alto Volta (The Republic of the Upper Volta, Upper-Volta), Alto Volta (The Republic of the Upper Volta, Upper-Volta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 볼타. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oltavay voltagem (volta electric tension, voltage), tensão eléctrica (volta electric tension, voltage), diferenca de potencial (volta electric tension, voltage). (various references) tensión eléctrica, voltaje (volta electric tension, voltage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Volta": voltage, voltages, voltaic, voltaism, voltaisms. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Volta": overvoltage, overvoltages, photovoltaic, photovoltaics. (additional references) | |
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"Volta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Colta, velta, Vojta, volka, Vollrath, Volstad, voltas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Volta" (pronounced vō"ltu) |
| 3 | -l t u | Delta. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lovat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: alto, lota, oval, tola, volt. | |
-2 letters: alt, avo, lat, lav, lot, oat, ova, tao, tav, vat. | |
-3 letters: al, at, la, lo, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: abvolt, lovats, volant. | |
+2 letters: abvolts, levator, octaval, ovality, ovately, ovulate, pivotal, solvate, violate, volante, voltage, voltaic, volvate, votable. | |
+3 letters: anviltop, bloviate, covalent, dovetail, elevator, jovialty, lavation, lavatory, levators, locative, loveseat, megavolt, outcavil, outrival, outvalue, overlate, oversalt, overtalk, ovulated, ovulates, solvated, solvates, tolarjev, travelog, valuator, violated, violater, violates, violator, vocalist, vocality, volatile, volitant, voltages, voltaism, vortical, voteable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 6F 6C 74 61 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- --- .-.. - .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101111 01101100 01110100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o l t a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 006F 006C 0074 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5681788667 |
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