volta-
(ˈvɒltə)
combining form of voltaic a.1 used in a few technical terms, as volta-electric, volta-electrometer, volta-inductric; voltaplast (see quot.); voltatype n., an electrotype; v. trans., to electrotype.
voltagraphy, given in some Dicts. as a synonym of ‘electrotypy’, after Penny Cycl. (1843) XXVI. 434/2, was coined specially for use in that work, and appears to have had no real currency.
| 1834 M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. xxxiii. 338 *Volta-electric induction is instantaneous. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3578, The instantaneous generation of volta-electric currents of intensity. |
| 1834 Faraday in Phil. Trans. CXXIV. 85 On a new Measure of *Volta-electricity. |
| Ibid. 93 The instrument offers the only actual measurer of voltaic electricity which we at present possess... I have therefore named it a *Volta-electrometer. 1839 Noad Electricity iii. 130 Its terminal wires are soldered to a Faraday's volta-electrometer. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2714/1 Voltaelectrometer, an instrument for indicating the degree of electrical excitation. |
| 1849 Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 491 The manner in which this machine acts will be clearly understood by reference to the general principles of *volta-inductric action. |
| 1842 Francis Dict. Arts, *Voltaplast. Such is the name given to that form of galvanic battery which is adapted to the electrotype. |
| 1842 Brande Dict. Sci. 1309/2 Gold, silver, and other metals may..be substituted for copper, and thus a variety of *volta⁓types may be obtained. Ibid., It often happens that the article to be voltatyped, as this process is now called, is not a conductor of electricity. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2714/2 Volta-type, a cast of an object obtained by the gradual deposition of a metal from a metallic solution, through the agency of electric action. |