Volta (n.)

  1. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)

    [ Syn: volta , count alessandro volta , conte alessandro volta , conte alessandro giuseppe antonio anastasio volta ]

  2. a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin

    [ Syn: volta ]

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