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Volt :: Volt (n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.

Henry :: Henry (n.) The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second..

Maccabees :: Maccabees (n. pl.) The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel..

Cathode :: Cathode (n.) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode..

Revolting :: Revolting (a.) Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty..

Lavolta :: Lavolta (n.) An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in which the woman made a high spring or bound..

Lavolt :: Lavolt (n.) Alt. of Lavolt.

Electro-motion :: Electro-motion (n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Lavoltateer :: Lavoltateer (n.) A dancer of the lavolta.

Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..

Water Battery :: Water battery () A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.

Anarch :: Anarch (n.) The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

Voltmeter :: Voltmeter (n.) An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.

Revolting :: Revolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revol.

Voltameter :: Voltameter (n.) An instrument for measuring the voltaic electricity passing through it, by its effect in decomposing water or some other chemical compound acting as an electrolyte..

Voltaism :: Voltaism (n.) That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals..

Voltairean :: Voltairean (a.) Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author..

Rheophore :: Rheophore (n.) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current..

Disgusting :: Disgusting (a.) That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting.

Rebel :: Rebel (v. i.) To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

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