Loading page
say it: VOHL-tuhj
voltage is a noun meaning "the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts
the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for voltage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.