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volt

/vohlt/US // voʊlt //UK // (vəʊlt) //

伏特,伏特加,伏特数,伏特的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Electricity.

    • : the standard unit of potential difference and electromotive force in the International System of Units, formally defined to be the difference of electric potential between two points of a conductor carrying a constant current of one ampere, when the power dissipated between these points is equal to one watt. Abbreviation: V

Examples

  • Inch by inch, I turned the knob higher, until it was up to 120 volts.

  • The battery’s run time corresponds with the number of volts.

  • Until a few years ago, most electric road cars used voltages of around 300-400 volts, while race cars used higher voltages of around 700-900 volts.

  • This generates a small amount of power, usually around 20 volts.

  • Its electric car the Volt had its best month ever, selling 3,351 units.

  • On the other hand, sales of the Volt declined in April 2013 from April 2012.

  • The Volt, a plug-in hybrid, was expected to be the easier sell, since it also uses gas and has a range of several hundred models.

  • The Volt, which can run for about 30 miles on electricity and has been slow to catch on, has been mocked by critics of GM.

  • “It sounds trivial but those numbers really add up a lot,” said Rory Paul of Volt Aerial Robotics.

  • The next day the electricians hooked it up to a twelve-hundred-volt feed-line, and by noon it was ready to go.

  • Archivolt, r′ki-volt, n. the band or moulding which runs round the lower part of the archstones of an arch.

  • Archivolt (rki-volt), in architecture, the ornamental band of mouldings on the face of an arch and following its contour.

  • Measurement of resistance: (a) volt-ammeter method, (b) Wheatstone bridge method.

  • The product of volts and amperes is the apparent power and is called volt-amperes in distinction from the true power or watts.