voltage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the electric potential difference between two points, equal to energy transferred per unit electric charge and measured in volts

   A transformer lowers the voltage before electricity enters the device.

Formed from volt + -age. The volt was named for Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, whose work on electric cells led to the first continuous source of electric current; voltage became the name for electric potential difference measured in volts.

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