Voltage
['vəʊltɪdʒ;'vɒltɪdʒ] or ['voltɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts.
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Definition
(n.) Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The feeder connections were all at the front of the building, and the general voltage control apparatus was on the floor above. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After the machine was completed we found the voltage was too low. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For this purpose the alternating current seems eminently adapted, as transformers only are needed to raise the line to high transmission voltage and to lower it again for use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In other words, a very slight drop in voltage means a disproportionately great loss in illumination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Transmission over the Zone is effected through four substations and a connecting high voltage transmission line which follows the main line of the Panama Railroad. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I had to devise a way of raising the voltage without changing the machine, which I did by adding extra magnets. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The voltage was increased to a higher pressure than usual, and all the incandescent lamps at Menlo Park did their best to win the approbation of the New York City fathers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the generating station at Menlo Park four Z dynamos of 110 volts were used, connected two in series, in multiple arc, giving a line voltage of 220. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The voltage of a dry cell is approximately 1. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A current of one ampere, having a voltage of one volt, will furnish in the course of one hour one watt hour of energy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The unit of electric power is called the watt; it is the power furnished by a current of one ampere with a voltage of one volt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It might be suggested as a solution of this problem that lamps of different voltages could be used. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For example, the simple voltaic cell and the gravity cell have approximately equal voltages, but the current produced by the voltaic cell is stronger than that produced by the gravity cell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But two voltages of equal value do not give equal currents unless the resistances met by the currents are equal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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