[f. VOLT sb. + -AGE.] Electromotive force reckoned or expressed in volts.

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1888.  W. R. Geis, in Salina Herald, 26 Jan., 2/5. If we have a leak in the wires, anywhere from the dynamo to the most remote lamp on our circuit the voltage is the same and perfectly harmless.

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1890.  Pall Mall G., 8 Aug., 4/3. The voltage varied between 700 and 1,300 volts.

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1894.  Bottone, Electr. Instr., 111. In calculating the voltage, the desired current must also be considered, and allowance made both for the internal and external resistances.

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1898.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 855. It is difficult to say what voltage is fatal to man.

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  fig.  1904.  Spectator, 30 April, 670/1. Pope … was seldom the subject of currents of high voltage like … the emotional Hazlitt.

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  b.  attrib. (esp. with adj. preceding).

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1890.  Daily News, 4 Jan., 6/7. There is as much danger from the low voltage as there is from the high voltage system, as far as fire is concerned. Ibid. (1894), 22 Jan., 2/8. The question of high voltage electricity.

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