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volta
1[ vohl-tuh, vol-; Italian vawl-tah ]
noun
- turn; time (used in phrases):
una volta (鈥渙nce鈥);
prima volta (鈥渇irst time鈥).
Volta
2[ vohl-tuhor, Italian vawl-tah vol-tuh, vohl- ]
noun
- Count A路les路san路dro [ah-les-, sahn, -d, r, aw], 1745鈥1827, Italian physicist.
- a river in W Africa, in Ghana, formed by the confluence of the Black Volta and the White Volta and flowing S into the Bight of Benin. About 250 miles (400 km) long; with branches about 1,240 miles (1,995 km) long.
volta
1/ 藞v蓴lta; 藞惫蓲濒迟蓹 /
noun
- a quick-moving Italian dance popular during the 16th and 17th centuries
- a piece of music written for or in the rhythm of this dance, in triple time
Volta
2/ 藞惫蓲濒迟蓹 /
noun
- a river in W Africa, formed by the confluence of the Black Volta and the White Volta in N central Ghana: flows south to the Bight of Benin: the chief river of Ghana. Length: 480 km (300 miles); (including the Black Volta) 1600 km (1000 miles)
- Lake Voltaan artificial lake in Ghana, extending 408 km (250 miles) upstream from the Volta River Dam on the Volta River: completed in 1966. Area: 8482 sq km (3275 sq miles)
Volta
3/ 藞v蓴lta; 藞v蓹蕣lt蓹 /
noun
- VoltaAlessandro17451827MItalianSCIENCE: physicist Count Alessandro (ales藞sandro). 1745鈥1827, Italian physicist after whom the volt is named. He made important contributions to the theory of current electricity and invented the voltaic pile (1800), the electrophorus (1775), and an electroscope
Volta
- Italian physicist who in 1800 invented the voltaic pile, which was the first source of continuous electric current. The volt unit of electromotive force is named for him.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of volta1
Example Sentences
Dance company Volta Collective has choreographed and performed in the garden.
British teenager Matthew Brennan claimed his first World Tour race win with a stunning victory on stage one of the Volta a Catalunya.
The Volta's second stage takes the riders 177.3km from Banyoles to Figueres on Tuesday, with the seven-stage race concluding in Barcelona on Sunday.
鈥淚t鈥檚 heartbreak, it鈥檚 wanting, it鈥檚 not feeling good enough, it鈥檚 being queer. I liked listening to the Mars Volta,鈥 she adds of the psychedelic punk band that formed around the same time as Tegan and Sara, 鈥渂ut I had no idea what was happening in their songs. Tegan and Sara鈥檚 music felt so intimate. I felt like I knew them.鈥
Fans online circulated an Instagram comment that former Scientologist and Mars Volta musician Cedric Bixler-Zavala sent to Armstrong, alleging that she has ties to the controversial group.
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