voltage

English

Etymology

volt +‎ -age, ultimately derived from the name of Alessandro Volta, inventor of the modern battery.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /voʊltɪdʒ/
Hyphenation: volt‧age

Noun

voltage (countable and uncountable, plural voltages)

(physics) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space.
The voltage between the wires is too low to produce a spark.
The potential difference between live conductors and neutral conductors or the earth in a system when in operation.
Be careful when opening high-voltage equipment.

Translations

amount of electrostatic potential

Arabic: جُهْد‎‎ m (juhd), فُولْتِيَّة‎‎ f (voltiyya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電壓 (zh), 电压 (zh) (diànyā)
Czech: napětí (cs) n
Dutch: spanning (nl)
Esperanto: tensio
Estonian: pinge (et)
Finnish: jännite (fi)
French: tension (fr) f
Galician: voltaxe (gl) f
German: Spannung (de) f
Greek: τάση (el) f (tási)
Icelandic: rafspenna f, spenna (is) f, straumstyrkur m
Italian: voltaggio (it) m, tensione (it) f
Japanese: 電圧 (ja) (でんあつ, den'atsu)

Korean: 전압 (ko) (jeonap)
Latvian: spriegums m, voltāža f
Maori: ngaohiko
Norwegian: spenning (no) m
Persian: ولتاژ‎‎ (fa) (voltâž)
Polish: napięcie (pl) n, woltaż (pl) m
Portuguese: tensão (pt) f, voltagem (pt) f
Romanian: tensiune (ro) f, voltaj (ro) n
Russian: напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije)
Slovene: napetost f, voltaža f
Spanish: voltaje (es) m
Swedish: spänning (sv) c
Tagalog: boltahe
Vietnamese: điện áp

Further reading

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