volta-combining form of voltaic, as in voltameter.
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. 85On a new Measure of *Volta-electricity.
Ibid. 93The 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. 130Its terminal wires are soldered to a Faraday's volta-electrometer.
1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2714/1Voltaelectrometer, an instrument for indicating the degree of electrical excitation.
1849 Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 491The 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. 1309/2Gold, 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. 2714/2Volta-type, a cast of an object obtained by the gradual deposition of a metal from a metallic solution, through the agency of electric action.
ORIGIN: from voltaic adjective 1.