voltmeter

English

Demonstration voltmeter used in science education

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Etymology tree

English volt

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Hellenic *-tron

Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)

Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.

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.

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 (vóltmétǎr)
• 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 (voltmetr)
• 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