The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
Volt, n. Etym: [F. volte; cf. It. volta. See Vault.]
1. (Man.)
Definition: A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
2. (Fencing)
Definition: A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
Volt, n. Etym: [After Alessandro Volta, the Italian electrician.] (Elec.)
Definition: 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
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.