Volta may refer to:

Persons

Alessandro Volta Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (, ; ; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and Power (physics), power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery a ...

(1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt *

Giovanni Volta Giovanni Volta (March 14, 1928 – February 4, 2012) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pavia, in Italy. Ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1952 by Bishop Domenico Menna, he was a student a ...

(1928–2012), Italian Roman Catholic bishop *

Giovanni Serafino Volta Giovanni Serafino Volta (1764–1842) was an Italian priest, naturalist, and palaeontologist, best known for his studies of fossil fish from Monte Bolca. Volta was an ''Abate'' (or abbot) and theologian. He was a Canon of the Imperial Basilica i ...

(1764–1842) Italian priest, naturalist and paleontologist *

Massimo Volta Massimo Volta (born 14 May 1987) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Eccellenza amateurs Carpenedolo. Club career Volta started his career with minor league club Carpenedolo. Sampdoria In January 2007 Volta was ...

(born 1987), Italian footballer * Leopoldo Camillo Volta (1751–1823) Italian librarian and historian of Mantua

Places

* Volta, California, a census-designated place in Merced County, California, US * Volta Mantovana, an Italian municipality in the Lombardy region *

Porta Volta Porta Volta is a former city gate of Milan, Italy, part of the Spanish walls (16th century). Nowadays, the name "Porta Volta" is most commonly used to refer to the surrounding district ("quartiere A (; : , ) is an administrative division o ...

, a former city gate of Milan, Italy *

Volta Grande Volta Grande is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020 its population was estimated to be 5,261. Geography Volta Grande is located in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais near the border with the state of Rio de ...

, a Brazilian municipality in the Minas Gerais state *

Volta Redonda Volta Redonda () is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with an area of 182.81 km2, located from 350m to 707m above the sea level (22°31'23" S, 44°06'15" W) and with a pop ...

, a Brazilian municipality in the Rio de Janeiro state * Upper Volta (disambiguation) *

Lake Volta Lake Volta (), the largest artificial reservoir in the world based on surface area, is contained behind the Akosombo Dam which generates a substantial amount of Ghana's electricity. It is completely within the country of Ghana and has a surface ...

, in Ghana *

Volta Region Volta Region (or Volta) is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital. It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. Divided into 25 administrative districts, the region is multi- ...

, in Ghana *

Volta River The Volta River (, , ) is the main Drainage system (geomorphology), river system in the West African country of Ghana. It flows south into Ghana from the Bobo-Dioulasso Department, Bobo-Dioulasso highlands of Burkina Faso. The three main part ...

, primarily flowing in Ghana, with its headstreams: **

White Volta The White Volta or Nakambé ( French: ''Volta blanche'') is the headstream of the Volta River, Ghana's main waterway. The White Volta emerges in northern Burkina Faso, flows through Northern Ghana and empties into Lake Volta in Ghana. The White V ...

Red Volta The Red Volta or Nazinon ( French: ''Volta rouge'') is a waterway located in West Africa. It emerges near Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and has a length of about 320 km at the end of which it joins the White Volta in Ghana. The river is prima ...

Black Volta The Black Volta or Mouhoun ( French: ''Volta noire'') is a river that flows through Burkina Faso for approximately 1,352 km (840 mi) to the White Volta in Dagbon, Ghana, the upper end of Lake Volta. It is one of the three main parts ...

Volta (crater) Volta is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater near the northwest limb of the Moon. It is located south-southeast of the crater Xenophanes (crater), Xenophanes, and due north of the smaller Galvani (crater), Galvani. The crater Regnault (crater), R ...

, a crater on the Moon * 8208 Volta, a main belt asteroid

Technology and products

Volta (microarchitecture) Volta is the codename, but not the trademark, for a graphics processing unit, GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, succeeding Pascal (microarchitecture), Pascal. It was first announced on a roadmap in March 2013, although the first product ...

, the initial codename for the microarchitecture to succeed the

Pascal (microarchitecture) Pascal is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, as the successor to the Maxwell (microarchitecture), Maxwell architecture. The architecture was first introduced in April 2016 with the release of the Tesla P100 (GP100) on ...

developed by Nvidia *

Volta Charging Volta Charging was an American electric vehicle infrastructure company. As of September 2021, the company had installed more than 2,000 charging stations in twenty-three U.S. states. Volta charging stations are compatible with all major plug-in ...

, American electric vehicle infrastructure company *

Toyota Alessandro Volta is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, producing ...

, a hybrid concept vehicle * Volta, a brand of vacuum cleaners by

Electrolux Electrolux AB () is a Swedish Multinational corporation, multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm. It is consistently ranked the world's second largest appliance maker by units sold, after Whirlpool Corporation, Whi ...

Organisations

Volta Laboratory and Bureau The Volta Laboratory (also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, the Bell Carriage House and the Bell Laboratory) and the Volta Bureau were created in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., by Alexa ...

, research and philanthropic institutions created by Alexander Graham Bell in the US *

Volta Aluminum Company Volta Aluminum Company, known as VALCO, is an aluminium company based in Tema, Greater Accra Region founded by Kaiser Aluminum and now wholly owned by the government of Ghana. History VALCO was a joint venture with Kaiser Aluminum and ALCOA, ma ...

, a company based in Ghana *

Volta River Authority The Volta River Authority (VRA) is the main generator and supplier of electricity in Ghana. They are also responsible for the maintenance of the hydro power supply plant. Establishment The VRA was established by the Volta River Development Act, ...

, the main electricity supplier in Ghana *

Volta Regional Museum The Volta Regional Museum is a museum in Ho, Ghana. The museum is dedicated to the history and traditions of the Volta Region. The museum is administered by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board. History Before it was used as a museum, the bui ...

, an ethnographic history museum in Ho, Ghana *

Volta Cinematograph The Volta Electric Theatre (later renamed the Lyceum Picture Theatre) was a film theatre in Dublin and was Ireland's first dedicated cinema. The site at 45 Mary Street, Dublin, Mary Street was later demolished and is occupied today by a departme ...

, first cinema of Dublin. started by, among others, James Joyce *

Volta Trucks Founded in 2019, Volta Trucks manufactures and provides services for electric trucks. The company's registered offices are Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, and London, UK, with operations in both countries as well as France, Spain, N ...

, an electric truck manufacturer *

Volta (Estonian company) Volta was a manufacturing company (factory) based in Tallinn, Estonia. Volta was established on 15 April 1899 (went into business on 5 January 1900) by Carl and Christian Luther. Volta produced electric motors and generators. In 1909, Volta p ...

, factory in Tallinn, Estonia

Sports

Volta a Portugal The Volta a Portugal (), also known as Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta (), is an annual multi-stage road bicycle racing competition held in Portugal. The competition takes place during a two-week span. History The competition started in 1927, alt ...

, an annual professional road bicycle race in Portugal *

Volta ao Algarve Volta may refer to: Persons * 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 (1764–1 ...

, an annual road bicycle racing stage race in the Algarve, Portugal *

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

, an annual professional road bicycle race in Catalonia, Spain *

Volta a Lleida The Volta a Lleida was a road cycling stage race held in the Lleida region of Spain. It was a 2.2 category race on the UCI Europe Tour between 2005 and 2008. List of overall winners {, class="wikitable" , + Volta a Lleida winners , - ! Volta ! ...

, a road cycling stage race held in the Lleida region of Spain *

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often used as preparation for the sprin ...

, a former road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community, Spain *

Volta Feminina da República The Volta Feminina da República is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in Brazil and is currently rated by the UCI UCI most commonly refers to: * University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, United Stat ...

, a Brazil women's staged cycle race *

Volta ao Distrito de Santarém The Volta ao Distrito de Santarém (Tour of Santarém District) was a multi-day road cycling race held annually in the District of Santárem, Portugal. From 2006 to 2008, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental ...

, an annual Portuguese road bicycle racing stage race in the Santárem district

Other uses

* ''Volta'' (album), a 2007 album by Björk *

Volta (dance) The volta (plural: voltas) (Italian: "the turn" or "turning") is an anglicised name for a dance for couples that was popular during the later Renaissance period. This dance was associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music. Its ...

, a Renaissance dance for couples *

Volta (literature) The volta is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion. Turns are seen in all types of written poetry. In the last two decades, the volta has become conventionally used as a word for this, stemming supposedly from technique sp ...

, 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 potential The Volta potential (also called Volta effect, Volta potential difference, contact potential difference, outer potential difference, Δψ, or "delta psi") in electrochemistry, is the electrostatic potential difference between two metals (or one me ...

, difference in potential in electrochemistry *

Volta Prize The Volta Prize () was originally established by Napoleon III during the Second French Empire in 1852 to honor Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist noted for developing the electric battery.John L. Davis. Artisans and savants: The Role of the Aca ...

, an award by the French government for scientific achievement in electricity * Edison Volta Prize, a biannual award by the European Physical Society (EPS) * Volta Congress, an interwar cycle of cultural meetings *

Como Conference The International Congress of Physicists (), better known as the Como Conference or the Volta Conference, was an international academic conference held from 11 to 27 September 1927, near Lake Como, Italy as part of a series of celebrations of the ...

, also known as Volta Conference *

Villa Volta Villa Volta is an attraction in the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands. It is a rare type of ride known as a madhouse, a variation of a haunted house, where the visitors get the illusion that either the building, the visitors themselves ...

, an attraction in the amusement park ''Efteling'' in the Netherlands *

VOLTA (Cirque du Soleil) ''Volta'' was a touring circus show by the Cirque du Soleil and was based on extreme sports; the principal character is a game-show host named Waz. It is the company's 41st production since 1984, and its 18th show presented under the Big Top. Th ...