English
Etymology
From volt + -age, ultimately derived from the name of Alessandro Volta, inventor of the modern battery.
Pronunciation
Noun
voltage (countable and uncountable, plural voltages)
- (electricity) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.
The voltage between the wires is too low to produce a spark.
Be careful when opening high-voltage equipment.
Derived terms
Translations
difference in electrostatic potential
- Albanian: tension (sq) m
- Arabic: جُهْد m (juhd), فُولْتِيَّة f (voltiyya)
- Armenian: լարում (hy) (larum)
- Asturian: voltaxe m
- Azerbaijani: gərginlik
- Belarusian: напру́жанне n (naprúžannje), напру́га f (naprúha)
- Bengali: বিভব (bn) (bibhob)
- Bulgarian: напреже́ние (bg) n (naprežénie)
- Burmese: ဗို့အား (my) (bui.a:)
- Catalan: tensió f, voltatge m
- Cebuano: boltahe
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電壓 / 电压 (zh) (diànyā)
- Czech: napětí (cs) n
- Danish: spænding (da) c
- Dutch: spanning (nl)
- Esperanto: tensio
- Estonian: pinge (et)
- Finnish: jännite (fi)
- French: tension (fr) f, voltage (fr) m
- Galician: voltaxe (gl) f
- Georgian: ძაბვა (ʒabva)
- German: Spannung (de) f
- Greek: τάση (el) f (tási)
- Hebrew: מֶתַח (he) m, ווֹלטָג׳ m
- Hindi: विभवांतर m (vibhvāntar), वोल्टता m (volṭatā), विद्युत्-दाब m (vidyut-dāb)
- Hungarian: feszültség (hu)
- Icelandic: rafspenna f, spenna (is) f, straumstyrkur m
- Indonesian: tegangan (id), tegangan listrik, beda potensial (id), spaning (id), voltase (id)
- Italian: voltaggio (it) m, tensione (it) f
- Japanese: 電圧 (ja) (でんあつ, den'atsu)
- Kazakh: кернеу (kk) (kerneu)
- Khmer: តង់ស្យុង (tɑngsyong)
- Korean: 전압 (ko) (jeonap)
- Kyrgyz: шыкалуу (şıkaluu)
- Lao: ຄວາມດັນໄຟຟ້າ (khuām dan fai fā)
- Latvian: spriegums m, voltāža f
- Lithuanian: įtampa (lt)
- Macedonian: напон m (napon), волта́жа f (voltáža)
- Malay: voltan, voltase (Indonesia)
- Maori: ngaohiko
- Mongolian: хүчдэл (mn) (xüčdel)
- Norwegian: spenning (no) m
- Persian: ولتاژ (fa) (voltâž)
- Piedmontese: voltagg m
- Polish: napięcie (pl) n, woltaż (pl) m
- Portuguese: tensão (pt) f, voltagem (pt) f
- Romanian: tensiune (ro) f, voltaj (ro) n
- Russian: напряже́ние (ru) n (naprjažénije), вольта́ж (ru) m (volʹtáž) (dated)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на́пон m
- Roman: nápon (sh) m
- Slovak: napätie n
- Slovene: napetost f, voltaža f
- Spanish: voltaje (es) m, tensión (es) f
- Swedish: spänning (sv) c
- Tagalog: boltahe
- Tajik: шиддат (šiddat)
- Thai: โวลเตจ (woon-dtèet), ศักย์ (th) (sàk), ศักย (th) (sàk-gà-yá-), แรงดันไฟฟ้า (rɛɛng-dan-fai-fáa)
- Turkish: gerilim (tr)
- Turkmen: tok güýji
- Ukrainian: напру́га f (naprúha), напру́ження n (naprúžennja), вольта́ж m (volʹtáž)
- Urdu: وولٹیج m (volṭej)
- Uyghur: توك بېسىمى (tok bësimi), بېسىم (bësim)
- Uzbek: kuchlanish (uz)
- Vietnamese: điện áp (vi), hiệu điện thế (vi)
- Welsh: foltedd m
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
voltage m (plural voltages)
- voltage
- Synonym: tension
Descendants
- → Persian: ولتاژ (voltâž)
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