Thesaurus: volta

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1. n. A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
2. A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
3. A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying thatthe part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta,once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications inthe close of a repeated strain.
4. n. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827) n. a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin