volta
biographical name(Vol-ta)
Alessandro (Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio) Conte Volta 1745—1827 Italian physicist
volta
geographical name(Vol-ta)
river in western Africa that flows from Lake Volta, a reservoir in north central Ghana, south into the Bight of Benin
volta
geographical name(Vol-ta)
city in eastern Brazil on the Paraíba River northwest of city of Rio de Janeiro population 242,063
volta
geographical name(Vol-ta)
river 200 miles (322 kilometers) long in southern Burkina Faso and northern Ghana flowing into Lake Volta
volta
geographical name(Vol-ta)
landlocked republic in western Africa; until 1958 a French territory; capital Ouagadougou area 105,869 square miles (274,200 square kilometers), population 19,743,000