VOLT

I. noun see: voluble Date: 1688 a leaping movement in fencing to avoid a thrust, 2. a tread or gait in which a horse going sideways makes a turn around a center, a circle traced by a horse in this movement, II. noun Etymology: Alessandro Volta Date: 1873 the practical meter-kilogram-second unit of electrical potential difference and electromotive force equal to the difference of potential between two points in a conducting wire carrying a constant current of one ampere when the power dissipated between these two points is equal to one watt and equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of one ohm when one ampere is flowing through it