voltmeter

English

Demonstration voltmeter used in science education

Alternative forms

• voltmetre (nonstandard)
• voltometer (nonstandard, also pronounced differently)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian Voltader.

English volt

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Hellenic *-tron

Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)

Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)lbor.

French -mètrebor.

English -meter

English voltmeter

From volt + -meter.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊltˌmitɚ/, [ˈvoʊltˌmiɾɚ]

  • Audio (Austin, Texas); [ˈvoʊlˌmiɾɚ]:

    (file)

Noun

voltmeter (plural voltmeters)

1. An instrument for measuring electric potential in volts.
   • 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:

     Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.

Derived terms

• microvoltmeter
• nanovoltmeter

Translations

instrument for measuring electric potential

• Albanian: voltmetër m
• Arabic: مِقْياس الْجُهْد الْكَهْرَبَائِيّ m (miqyās al-juhd al-kahrabāʔiyy), مِقْياس الْفُولْت m (miqyās al-fūlt)
• Armenian: վոլտմետր (hy) (voltmetr)
• Azerbaijani: voltmetr
• Basque: voltmetro
• Belarusian: вальтме́тр m (valʹtmjétr), вальтмэ́тр m (valʹtmétr), вальтмэ́тар m (valʹtmétar)
• Bengali: ভোল্টমিটার (bhōlṭomiṭar)
• Bulgarian: во́лтме́тър (bg) m (vóltmétăr)
• Burmese: ဗို့အားတိုင်းကိရိယာ (bui.a:tuing:ki.ri.ya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電壓表 / 电压表 (zh) (diànyābiǎo)

• Czech: voltmetr (cs) m
• Danish: voltmeter n
• Dutch: voltmeter (nl) m
• Estonian: voltmeeter
• Finnish: volttimittari (fi), jännitemittari (fi)
• French: voltmètre (fr) m
• Georgian: ვოლტმეტრი (volṭmeṭri)
• German: Spannungsmessgerät n, Voltmeter (de) n
• Greek: βολτόμετρο (el) n (voltómetro)
• Hebrew: מַד מֶתַח (he) m (mad métakh)
• Hindi: वोल्टमीटर m (volṭamīṭar)
• Hungarian: voltmérő (hu)
• Icelandic: voltmælir m
• Indonesian: voltmeter
• Irish: voltmhéadar m
• Italian: voltmetro (it) m
• Japanese: 電圧計 (ja) (でんあつけい, den'atsukei), ボルトメーター (borutomētā)
• Kazakh: вольтметр (volʹtmetr)
• Korean: 전압계(電壓計) (ko) (jeonapgye), 볼트미터 (bolteumiteo)
• Kyrgyz: вольтметр (voltmetr)
• Latvian: voltmetrs m
• Lithuanian: voltmetras m
• Macedonian: волтме́тар (mk) m (voltmétar)
• Malay: meter volt, voltmeter
• Māori: ine-ngaohiko
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: вольтметр (mn) (volʹtmetr), хүчдэл хэмжигч (xüčdel xemžigč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: voltmeter m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: وُلْت‌سَنْج (volt-sanj), وُلْت‌مِتْر (volt-metr)

• Polish: woltomierz (pl) m
• Portuguese: voltímetro (pt) m
• Romanian: voltmetru (ro) n
• Russian: вольтме́тр (ru) m (volʹtmétr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̏лтметар m

  Latin: vȍltmetar (sh) m

• Slovak: voltmeter m
• Slovene: voltmeter m
• Spanish: voltímetro (es) m
• Swedish: voltmeter (sv) c
• Tajik: волтсанҷ (voltsanj), волтметр (voltmetr)
• Thai: โวลต์มิเตอร์ (wóon-mí-dtə̂ə)
• Turkish: voltmetre (tr)
• Turkmen: woltmetr
• Ukrainian: вольтме́тр m (volʹtmétr)
• Uzbek: voltmetr (uz)
• Vietnamese: điện áp kế (電壓計), vôn kế (vi)

Anagrams

• voltmetre

Dutch

Etymology

From volt +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

voltmeter m (plural voltmeters, diminutive voltmetertje n)

1. voltmeter

Synonyms

• spanningsmeter

Swedish

Noun

voltmeter c

1. voltmeter

Declension

Declension of voltmeter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	voltmeter	voltmeters
	definite	voltmetern	voltmeterns
plural	indefinite	voltmetrar	voltmetrars
	definite	voltmetrarna	voltmetrarnas