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volta
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun volta has 2 senses
- volta(n = noun.person) conte alessandro giuseppe antonio anastasio volta, conte alessandro volta, count alessandro volta - Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827); Array is a kind of physicist
- volta(n = noun.object) Array - a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin; Array is a part of ghana, gold coast, republic of ghana
is a kind of river
CIDE DICTIONARY
volta, n. [It. volta a turn, turning, a time. See Volt a tread.].
A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain. [1913 Webster]
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