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VOLTA
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Irregular inflected form: volte
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Volta" is a part of...):
Ghana; Gold Coast; Republic of Ghana (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)
Synonyms:
Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta; Conte Alessandro Volta; Count Alessandro Volta; Volta
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
