volta-electric
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.97 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "The similarity of action, almost amounting to identity, between common magnets and either electro-magnets or volta-electric currents, is strikingly in accordance with and confirmatory of M. Ampere’s theory, and furnishes powerful reasons for believing that the action is the same in both cases; […] I propose to call the agency thus exerted by ordinary magnets, magneto-electric or magnelectric induction."
- "In these equations v₁, v₂, … v₂₁ denote the volta-electric differences from copper which must be given to part 1, part 2, … part 21 of the surface of the molecule in order that the 21 piezo-electric and pyro-electric coefficients may have their given values […]"
- "The first series of these researches, presented to the Royal Society on 24 November 1831, contained the first account of his discovery of voltaelectric and magnetoelectric induction."