What does "volt" mean?

Volt: (Fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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 ampère. It is practically equivalent to

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