What's the difference between volt and voltmeter?

Volt


Definition:

  • (n.) A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
  • (n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
  • (n.) 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 ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15¡ C.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
  • (2) High voltage stimuli were always effective, while when the pulse amplitude was reduced to 3.8 volt stimuli were uneffective except when occurring after extremely long asystolic pauses.
  • (3) Proper provision of ground-fault circuit interrupter protection, particularly at temporary work sites, could have prevented most of the deaths from 110-volt AC.
  • (4) The board samples as many as eight channels, giving 12-bit resolution for signals between plus and minus 2.5 volts.
  • (5) No grounds for the commission’s volte-face have yet been published, but the Guardian has seen a draft of the EU decision from last October, suggesting that one key decider had been that Hinkley advanced an EU ‘common interest’ around security of supply.
  • (6) Add to that a dangerous nuclear deal with Iran (as Republicans and Israel’s government see it) and the apparent impotence in the face of Islamic State and the Afghanistan volte-face looks, to political foes at least , like clinching proof of serial failure by the commander-in-chief.
  • (7) The Volt, which will start production late next year, could be capable of travelling up to 40 miles (64km) on a single charge before its small petrol engine kicks in to power the car and recharge the battery.
  • (8) Electrical stimulation of the vagal trunk with 10 Hz in frequency, 3 ms in duration and 15 volt in intensity for 10 s in cats produced an excitatory response of the stomach and the response was composed of two phases, an initial rapid excitation during stimulation period and the late multi-peak response after stimulation period.
  • (9) The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of both high volt galvanic current (HVG) and isometric exercise to strengthen the quadriceps femoris muscles in 17 healthy subjects.
  • (10) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
  • (11) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
  • (12) Two platinum or stainless steel electrodes were placed in the tumor and around 10 volts of direct current was passed for 1 hour.
  • (13) Operation is controlled by a microprocessor which regulates and controls the addition of reagents and collects and displays the data as time, temperature in volts, and the pH.
  • (14) Stimulation was performed using a baby Medtronic stimulator coupled to a Vygon amplifier delivering an output of 30 volt.
  • (15) The volte face was a result of Russian blackmail, the Lithuanian president's office said as senior officials in Brussels said Yanukovych was sacrificing the hopes and wishes of most of his countrymen on the altar of Russian money and contracts.
  • (16) The maximal intensity which is easily recorded, e.g., by a tracking volt-meter, is proportional to the concentration of the reduced nucleotide.
  • (17) 3) He thinks the Nissan Leaf and GM Volt are "not great products" What Nissan’s doing with the Leaf is sincere.
  • (18) The move comes in advance of the release this year of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, which promise to deliver driving distances of 40 miles or more on a single battery charge and are being marketed to middle-class families.
  • (19) Before this we’d won nothing for years.” The government’s volte-face means that tens of thousands of the very poorest households on the brink of catastrophe – victims of domestic violence or flooding, homelessness, or those made penniless by sudden financial crises – will in theory still be able to turn to the state, rather than the loan shark, for “last resort” help.
  • (20) A convenient method of interstitial radiation therapy can be quickly and easily accomplished using absorbable Vicryl-125I sutures which offer these general advantages: long shelf life, 60 day half-life; low energy, 28 kilo electron volts, permitting patients to leave the hospital; good geometric and anatomic distribution of 125I seeds which remain in place after implantation; less radiation exposure to the operating and attending personnel due to this low energy plus the reduced exposure time provided by quick implantation; removal unnecessary, reducing exposure time; implantation using minor surgical equipment; dosage determination easily calculated; hospitalization, from the standpoint of radioactivity, unnecessary.

Voltmeter


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of greatest importance, however, is the fact that the voltmeter can serve as a monitoring device which will indicate when the potassium should be administered in order to render the heart both mechanically and electrically arrested.
  • (2) Measurement instrumentation, consisting of a differential transformer coupled to an oscillator and digital voltmeter was sensitive to the travel of a probe from the gingival surface to tooth surface or alveolar bone.
  • (3) The output of the paramagnetic meter was measured both by a digital voltmeter and by a chart recorded and the carbon dioxide concentrations calculated from these observations (Y1% and Y2% respectively) were compared with those obtained by Lloyd-Haldane (x%) gas analysis, for carbon dioxide concentration of 2-20% in a range of oxygen concentrations of about 9-90%.
  • (4) These two rates are electronically displayed on two three-digit voltmeters, the first display being the total activity, the second a number proportional to the inhibited slope.
  • (5) We have modified our Couette viscometer, adding a computer-controlled stepping motor and a second digital voltmeter.
  • (6) Dark adaptation and spectral sensitivity functions were measured for ERG criteria using a vector voltmeter.
  • (7) This voltmeter has been tested using the initial measurement system as reference and produces the same information concerning the small signal electrical activity (i.e.
  • (8) The design and implementation of high performance differential voltmeters for semi-parallel data acquisition are described.
  • (9) The circuit can drive a standard pen recorder and digital voltmeter, resulting in rapid and accurate measurements.
  • (10) Electrical activity was recorded on electromagnetic tape and intramyocardial voltage was monitored with an inline voltmeter.
  • (11) A specific implementation of the voltmeters, with separate DC supplies and independent signal references, is described.
  • (12) The electric potential difference was registered by three independent methods: by transmembrane electrophoresis of penetrating anions PCB-, by direct measurement with using voltmeter in system "proteoliposome--planar membrane" and electrochromic absorption band shifts of bacteriochlorophyll.
  • (13) Valves connected to the cylinders are sequentially activated by a motor driven shaft provided with cams, which also activates a microswitch connected to a digital voltmeter.
  • (14) Because this voltmeter is battery powered and is, therefore, completely isolated from all electrical equipment in the operating theatre, it can be used to monitor the presence, or absence, of microfibrillation in the human heart.
  • (15) To this end, penetrating anion probe and direct voltmeter measurement of electric potential across phospholipid membrane were used.
  • (16) Light-dependent electric responses of the proteoliposomes were detected using (a) phenyldicarbaundecarborane anion (PCB-) probe and (b) direct measurement by a voltmeter in the proteoliposome-planar phospholipid membrane system.
  • (17) Visual-evoked potential (VEP) data were obtained by parallel analog (vector voltmeter) techniques from scalp electrodes in response to high luminance counterphasing sine wave gratings.
  • (18) Using a digital electron voltmeter, bioelectrical potentials (BEPs) of dental crowns have been recorded in 180 patients, 36 dogs, and 93 white non-inbred rats.
  • (19) This observation confirms that the signal-to-noise ratio is much better with the vector voltmeter technique than with the averaging technique.
  • (20) The design is based on the precise transduction of the angular position of the compensator's Vernier dial to an easily visible red-illuminated display on a digital voltmeter.

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