volta Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)
    Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta; Count Alessandro Volta; Conte Alessandro Volta.
  2. noun a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin

WordNet

Vol"ta noun
Etymology
It. volta a turn, turning, a time. See Volt a tread.
Wordforms
plural Volte
Definitions
  1. (Mus.) A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.

Webster 1913