VOLTA (volte)

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Irregular inflected form: volte   

• VOLTA (noun)
  The noun VOLTA has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: VOLTA used as a noun is rare.

• VOLTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta; Conte Alessandro Volta; Count Alessandro Volta; Volta

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Volta" is a part of...):

Ghana; Gold Coast; Republic of Ghana (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea)