Volta

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Volta may refer to:

• Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt
• Giovanni Volta (1928–2012), Italian Roman Catholic bishop
• Giovanni Serafino Volta (1764–1842) Italian priest, naturalist and paleontologist
• Massimo Volta (born 1987), Italian footballer
• Leopoldo Camillo Volta (1751–1823) Italian librarian and historian of Mantua

• Volta, California, a census-designated place in Merced County, California, US
• Volta Mantovana, an Italian municipality in the Lombardy region
• Porta Volta, a former city gate of Milan, Italy
• Volta Grande, a Brazilian municipality in the Minas Gerais state
• Volta Redonda, a Brazilian municipality in the Rio de Janeiro state
• Upper Volta (disambiguation)
• Lake Volta, in Ghana
• Volta Region, in Ghana
• Volta River, primarily flowing in Ghana, with its headstreams:
  • White Volta
  • Red Volta
  • Black Volta
• Volta (crater), a crater on the Moon
• 8208 Volta, a main belt asteroid

• Volta (microarchitecture), the initial codename for the microarchitecture to succeed the Pascal (microarchitecture) developed by Nvidia
• Volta Charging, American electric vehicle infrastructure company
• Microsoft Live Labs Volta, a web development toolset by Microsoft
• Toyota Alessandro Volta, a hybrid concept vehicle
• Volta, a brand of vacuum cleaners by Electrolux

• Volta Laboratory and Bureau, research and philanthropic institutions created by Alexander Graham Bell in the US
• Volta Aluminum Company, a company based in Ghana
• Volta River Authority, the main electricity supplier in Ghana
• Volta Regional Museum, an ethnographic history museum in Ho, Ghana
• Volta Cinematograph, first cinema of Dublin. started by, among others, James Joyce
• Volta Trucks, an electric truck manufacturer
• Volta (Estonian company), factory in Tallinn, Estonia

• Volta a Portugal, an annual professional road bicycle race in Portugal
• Volta ao Algarve, an annual road bicycle racing stage race in the Algarve, Portugal
• Volta a Catalunya, an annual professional road bicycle race in Catalonia, Spain
• Volta a Lleida, a road cycling stage race held in the Lleida region of Spain
• Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, a former road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community, Spain
• Volta Feminina da República, a Brazil women's staged cycle race
• Volta ao Distrito de Santarém, an annual Portuguese road bicycle racing stage race in the Santárem district

• Volta (album), a 2007 album by Björk
• Volta (dance), a Renaissance dance for couples
• Volta (literature), a point of dramatic change in a poem
• Una Volta, the 3rd album from the band DeVotchKa
• Volta (film), a 2004 Philippine movie
• Volta (TV series), a 2008 Philippine TV series based on its namesake 2004 movie
• Volta (Brescia Metro), a railway station in Brescia, Italy
• Volta Review, the journal of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Volta bracket, a musical repeat sign
• Volta Prize, an award by the French government for scientific achievement in electricity
• Edison Volta Prize, a biannual award by the European Physical Society (EPS)
• Volta Conference, an interwar cycle of cultural meetings
• Villa Volta, an attraction in the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands
• VOLTA (Cirque du Soleil), a touring big top show by Cirque du Soleil

• The Mars Volta, an American musical group
• Volt, the derived unit for electric potential, named in honour of Alessandro Volta
• Voltaic (disambiguation)
• Voltaic pile, the first electrical battery
• Volta do mar, a navigational technique perfected by the Portuguese during the late fifteenth century
• Conan: Hall of Volta, a 1984 action/platform computer game

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