voltage
noun
electromotive force or potential difference expressed in volts.
voltages
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pluralof voltage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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BelGaN, based in Belgium, specialized in making gallium nitride semiconductors, which allow for higher voltages compared with silicon-based chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Solid-state transformers convert power to different voltages, and go largely unnoticed, attached to telephone poles everywhere.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
The system also charged capacitors to useful voltages within minutes, showing its potential for powering small electronics and wireless sensors.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2025
Thanks to electroencephalography, researchers can even link slow-wave sleep to a process of synchronous changes in electrical voltages in thousands of neurons, known as up and down states.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
In these cases, one mixes pseudorandom numbers from several computers, then incorporates the physical indeterminacy of randomly fluctuating voltages from a “white noise” source.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
