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Volt (symbol V) is the SI derived unit for electromotive force and potential difference, named after Alessandro Volta.

Contents

• Electrical measurement
• Entertainment and media
• People
• Other uses
• See also

Volt or Volts may also refer to:

Electrical measurement

• electron volt (eV), a unit of energy in physics
• volt-ampere (VA), a unit used to measure the apparent power in an electrical circuit
• volt-ampere reactive (var), a unit used to measure reactive power in an AC system
• Volt meter, instrument for measuring electrical potential
• Volt-ohm meter (VOM), instrument that combines several electrical measurement functions
• volt-second (V⋅s), more commonly the weber (Wb), a unit of magnetic flux
• Volts Center Tapped (VCT), a unit of voltage output of a center tapped transformer

Entertainment and media

• Ugo Volt, a computer game
• Volt, a Sonoma State University poetry magazine
• Volt (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional creature
• Volt (Transformers), a fictional character
• Volt (TV series), French Canadian
• Volt Records
• Volts (album), an album by AC/DC
• Volt , an EP by Trip Shakespeare
• Volt, a character in Warframe

People

• Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), the Italian physicist after whom the term volt is named
• John Volts (1825–1904?), a British critic, philosopher and writer.

Other uses

• Chevrolet Volt, an American plug-in hybrid automobile
• Volt Europa, a pro-European and federalist European political movement, often referred to as "Volt". Branches:
  • Volt Albania
  • Volt Austria
  • Volt Belgium
  • Volt Bulgaria
  • Volt Cyprus
  • Volt Czech Republic
  • Volt Denmark
  • Volt France
  • Volt Germany
  • Volt Greece
  • Volt Ireland
  • Volt Italy
  • Volt Luxembourg
  • Volt Malta
  • Volt Netherlands
  • Volt Poland
  • Volt Portugal
  • Volt Romania
  • Volt Slovakia
  • Volt Spain
  • Volt Sweden
  • Volt Switzerland
  • Volt Ukraine
  • Volt UK
• Volt Technical Resources, a US recruiting company
• VoltDB, an in-memory database
• Volt, Nike company's name for the colour electric lime
• Former Volt Bank, Australia

See also

• Voltage (disambiguation)
• Megavolt (disambiguation)
• Ampere (disambiguation)

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