单词 | volta- |
释义 | volta-comb. form 1. combining form of voltaic adj.1 used in a few technical terms. voltagraphy, given in some dictionaries as a synonym of ‘electrotypy’, after Penny Cycl. (1843) XXVI. 434/2, was coined specially for use in that work, and appears to have had no real currency. volta-electric adj. Brit. , U.S. , ΚΠ 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. xxxiii. 338 Volta-electric induction is instantaneous. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3578 The instantaneous generation of volta-electric currents of intensity. volta-electricity n. Brit. , U.S. , ΚΠ 1834 Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 85 On a new Measure of Volta-electricity. volta-electrometer n. Brit. , U.S. , ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [noun] > instrument for analysing galvanoscope1832 volta-electrometer1834 1834 Faraday in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 93 The instrument offers the only actual measurer of voltaic electricity which we at present possess... I have therefore named it a Volta-electrometer. 1839 H. M. Noad Course Eight Lect. iii. 130 Its terminal wires are soldered to a Faraday's volta-electrometer. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2714/1 Voltaelectrometer, an instrument for indicating the degree of electrical excitation. volta-inductric adj. Brit. , U.S. , ΚΠ 1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 491 The manner in which this machine acts will be clearly understood by reference to the general principles of volta-inductric action. 2. voltaplast n. Brit. , U.S. , ΚΠ 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Voltaplast. Such is the name given to that form of galvanic battery which is adapted to the electrotype. voltatype n. and v. Brit. , U.S. , ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > cast or impression > plaster, wax, etc. ectype1662 plaster cast1773 electrotype1840 sulphur-impression1840 voltatype1842 sulphur1867 squeeze1882 sulphur-cast1909 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1309/2 Gold, silver, and other metals may..be substituted for copper, and thus a variety of voltatypes may be obtained. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1309/2 It often happens that the article to be voltatyped, as this process is now called, is not a conductor of electricity. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2714/2 Volta-type, a cast of an object obtained by the gradual deposition of a metal from a metallic solution, through the agency of electric action. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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