Volta Redonda

[ vawl-tahri-dawn-dah ]

/ ˈvɔl tɑ rɪˈdɔ̃ dɑ /

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noun

a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.

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Words nearby Volta Redonda

voltaism, voltameter, voltammeter, voltammetry, volt-ampere, Volta Redonda, volte, volte-face, volti, voltmeter, Volturno

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How to use Volta Redonda in a sentence

Eager to gift his newborn son, also called Matthew, with a royal title, he pronounced the island the Kingdom of Redonda.
So You Want to Rule a Kingdom? A Wacky History of One-Man Nations|Nina Strochlic|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fifteen years later, King Felipe I of Redonda was crowned and ruled as an absolute monarch.
So You Want to Rule a Kingdom? A Wacky History of One-Man Nations|Nina Strochlic|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The subsidiary fair, Volta, was crackling; there, I ran into Katelijne de Backer of the Armory.
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Volta actually made this battery, then known as the Voltaic Pile, but he made it because of Galvani's discovery.
Steam Steel and Electricity|James W. Steele

Volta came to see them as produced by chemical action upon two dissimilar metals.
Steam Steel and Electricity|James W. Steele
Volta was one of these, and he also furnished, as will hereafter be seen, a name for one of the units of electrical measurement.
Steam Steel and Electricity|James W. Steele
Back to the Volta, the boundary line between the two empires, fled the routed Ashantees.
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"No" shouts a woman who sells fruit, and who was one of a group on the corner of Via Alessandro Volta.
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British Dictionary definitions for Volta Redonda

Volta Redonda

/ (Portuguese ˈvɔltə rəˈdõdə) /

noun

a city in SE Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro state on the Paraíba River: founded in 1941; site of South America's largest steelworks. Pop: 419 000 (2005 est)

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