The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit

Usage examples of voltage.

The essence of what he said was that he had long ago established that the most efficient way of transmitting his polyphase electrical current was to boost it to high voltages and direct it along high-tension cables.

Each time he pecked, his fingers were assaulted by the churning voltage, but he kept on until the ship was driving itself into the dirty trail of preplanetary garbage between the gas giant and the star.

And if Quaid really was NSA, who knew what sort of voltage it was packing.

Listen, I finally got it all sorted out, voltage levels, line conversion, everything, and this is the good bit!

The nose thermistor busily converts temperature to an electrical voltage which modulates the transmitter which squirts the signal back to the suitcase ground system on the 403 mHz.

Tycho, took it to pieces, and with the assistance of an electrochemist from another department, worked out the voltage it had been designed to produce.

Tesla was obsessed by high voltages, high frequencies, and high power--his Colorado Springs laboratory generated 12 megavolts, at currents reported to be over a kiloamp.

Not everybody can calmly climb 2,000 feet into the air with a twenty-pound tool-belt of ohmmeters, wattmeters, voltage meters, and various wrenches, clamps, screwdrivers, and specialized cutting tools.

All of this had been setup so that Zeldo and his ilk could fly straight in from California, drop their whores off at the Imperial, and plug their computer and other more arcane devices straight into the wall without having to deal with the awful culture shock of incompatible plugs and voltages.

The dying stratospheric plasma had found a way to reach down to Earth, its radio frequency pulses pumping vast quantities of ions through the lower atmosphere, inducing a massive voltage difference between the stormclouds and the ground.

An electrical device that puts an ultrahigh voltage on distilled water, causing electrolysis, the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen.

To succeed in this, the cyborg-bacteria should be capable of finding those nervous fibers in the body that control the heart beat or the diaphragm muscles, hooking up to these fibers and feeding into these fibers electrical pulses of very low voltage, which cannot do any harm by themselves, but these would be control pulses that commanding the heart or the lungs to stop working.

Hovan, I want you to keep an eye out for any voltage fluctuations in the cloaking device.

You asked me to watch out for voltage fluctuations on our cloaking screen?

But if one is placed outside and the other inside, a voltage of some 70 millivolts negative to the inside is measured.