Volt (?), n. [F. volte; cf. It.
volta. See Vault.]
1. (Man.) A circular tread; a gait by which
a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric
tracks.
2. (Fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a
thrust.
Volt, n. [After Alessandro Volta, the
Italian electrician.] (Elec.) The unit of electro-motive force;
-- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United
States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a
conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one
ampère. It is practically equivalent to 1000⁄1434 the electro-
motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15°
C.