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voltaelectric

voltaelectric is the uncommon spelling of volta-electric.

Meaning of volta-electric

Adjective

volta-electric (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.
    • The similarity of action, almost amounting to identity, between common magnets and either electro-magnets or volta-electric currents, is strikingly in accordance with and confirmatory of M. Ampere’s theory, and furnishes powerful reasons for believing that the action is the same in both cases; […]...1831 November 24, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 122, published 1832, pages 138–39
    Synonyms:
    voltaic

Questions about voltaelectric

What is voltaelectric the uncommon spelling of?
Voltaelectric is the uncommon spelling of volta-electric.

Words near voltaelectric in the dictionary

  1. volta
  2. Volta's pile
  3. volta-electric
  4. volta-electricity
  5. Volta-Niger
  6. voltaelectric
  7. voltage
  8. voltage divider
  9. voltage dividers
  10. voltage multiplier
  11. voltage multipliers

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