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- (from the article "tennis") ...strikes the ball back (before it hits the ground a second time) over the net and within the boundaries of the opponent's court. After the service has been correctly returned, the players may volley the ball (i.e., hit it before it bounces) or hit it after its first bounce, and ...
- volleyball
- game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents' playing area before it can be returned. To prevent ... [16 Related Articles]
- Vollmann, William T.
- (from the article "Literature") ...seven years, worked as an uproarious send-up of the world of television and film, though it did not win the credit it deserved. Although another decidedly experimental work, Europe Central by William T. Vollmann, an 811-page novel about the rise of Nazism and the Russian front, did not garner much ...
- Vollmer, August
- (from the article "police") The founder of the professional policing reform movement in the United States was August Vollmer. Beginning his career in 1905 as the head of a six-person police department in Berkeley, Calif., Vollmer ultimately produced a vision around which the country's police forces rallied. He promoted the application to policing of ...
- Volney, Constantin-Francois de Chasseboeuf, Count de
- historian and philosopher, whose work Les Ruines . . . epitomized the rationalist historical and political thought of the 18th century.
- Volodymyr-Volynskyy
- city, northwestern Ukraine. The city is situated on the Luha River where it is crossed by the Kovel-Lviv railway. It was founded by Vladimir I, grand prince of Kiev, in the 10th century and became the capital of one of the chief princedoms of Kievan Rus. After coming under Lithuanian ...
- Vologda
- oblast (province), northwestern Russia. The oblast consists of alternating broad river basins and morainic hills. The western third is drained by tributaries of the upper Volga River, while the eastern part belongs to the Northern Dvina River basin, draining into it by the Sukhona River. In the extreme northwest a ...
- Vologda
- city and administrative centre of Vologda oblast (province), northwestern Russia. The city lies along the Vologda River above its confluence with the Sukhona River and is situated about 250 miles (400 km) north-northeast of Moscow.
- Vologeses I
- king of Parthia (reigned c. AD 51-80), the son of the previous king, Vonones II, by a Greek concubine. [2 Related Articles]
- Vologeses III (or II)
- one of the rival claimants to the throne of the Parthian king Pacorus II. [2 Related Articles]
- Vologeses IV (or III)
- king of Parthia (reigned 148-192). [2 Related Articles]
- Vologeses V (or IV)
- king of Parthia who reigned 191-208/209. [2 Related Articles]
- Vologeses VI (or V)
- king of Parthia (reigned 209-c. 212). [2 Related Articles]
- Vologesias
- (from the article "Vologeses I") ...of the Hyrcanians, an invasion by Alani tribesmen in Media and Armenia, and the usurpation of his son Vardanes II. Vologeses' reign was also marked by a decided reaction against Hellenism; he built Vologesias near Ctesiphon with the intention of drawing to the new town the inhabitants and trade of ...
- Volonte, Gian Maria
- Italian actor (b. April 9, 1933, Milan, Italy--d. Dec. 6, 1994, Florina, Greece), epitomized, with his chiseled features, hooded eyes, and scowling demeanour, the classic tough guy in such films as Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964; under the stage name John Wells), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion ...
- Volos
- port, the third largest of Greece (after Piraeus and Thessaloniki). It lies at the head of the Gulf of Pagasitikos (Volos) on the east coast of Thessaly. Volos is the capital of the nomos (department) of Magnisia and of the eparkhia ("eparchy") of Volos, as well as seat of the ...
- volost
- (from the article "Russia") ...private serfs. Kiselev set up a system of government administration down to the village level and provided for a measure of self-government under which the mayor of the volost (a district grouping several villages or peasant communes) was elected by male householders. There was also to be ...
- Volozhin
- (from the article "Elijah ben Solomon") ...Elijah began teaching a chosen circle of devoted pupils who were already experienced scholars. Among them was Hayyim ben Issac, who went on to found the great yeshiva (Talmudic academy) at Volozhin (now Valozhyn, Belarus), which trained several generations of scholars, rabbis, and leaders. Elijah's writings were published posthumously and ...
- Volpe, Galvano della
- (from the article "Hegelianism") The latter motive is, on the other hand, the essential aim of a third Marxist current, in Italy, initiated by Galvano della Volpe, a critical aesthetician who discusses the relationship between bourgeois and Socialist democracy and champions, in aesthetics, a critical and antiromantic Aristotelianism. This current has been continued by ...
- Volponi, Paolo
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...Nonexistent Knight]) and, later, on moralizing science fiction (Le cosmicomiche [1965; Cosmicomics] and Ti con zero [1968; t zero]). Paolo Volponi's province is the human consequences of Italy's rapid postwar industrialization (Memoriale [1962], La macchina mondiale [1965; The Worldwide...
- Volsci
- ancient Italic people prominent in the history of Roman expansion during the 5th century BC. They belonged to the Osco-Sabellian group of tribes and lived (c. 600 BC) in the valley of the upper Liris River. Later events, however, drove them first westward and then south to the fertile land ... [3 Related Articles]
- Volscian language
- an Italic language or dialect, closely related to Umbrian and Oscan and more distantly related to Latin and Faliscan. Spoken in central Italy by the Volsci people, neighbours of the Oscan-speaking Samnites, Volscian was replaced by Latin in the 3rd century BC as the Volsci became Romanized after their submission ...
- Volsinii
- ancient Etruscan town on the site of present-day Bolsena (Viterbo province, Italy). At an unidentified neighbouring site was a temple to Voltumna, which was the headquarters of the 12-city Etruscan League and the site of the annual assemblies of the Etruscans. [1 Related Articles]
- Volsk
- city, Saratov oblast (province), western Russia. The city lies along the Volga River opposite its confluence with the Bolshoy (Great) Irgiz. Originating as the small settlement of Malykovka, it was made a town in 1780, first called Volgsk, later Volsk. Since the October Revolution (1917), Volsk has become one of ...
- Volstead Act
- (from the article "Volstead Act") (1919), U.S. law enacted to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. See prohibition.major referenceprohibition...the necessary two-thirds vote in Congress; the amendment w
- volt
- unit of electrical potential, potential difference and electromotive force in the metre-kilogram-second system (SI); it is equal to the difference in potential between two points in a conductor carrying one ampere current when the power dissipated between the points is one watt. An equivalent is the potential difference across a ... [10 Related Articles]
- volta
- (from the article "Greece") In the hot summers social life in Greece tends to be conducted outdoors. In small towns and villages the tradition of the volta continues, when much of the population strolls up and down the main street or, on the islands, the quayside at sundown. In summer and winter much leisure ...
- volta
- the turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by such initial words as But, Yet, or And yet.
- Volta Laboratory
- (from the article "Bell, Alexander Graham") In 1880 France honoured Bell with the Volta Prize; and the 50,000 francs (roughly equivalent to U.S. $10,000) financed the Volta Laboratory, where, in association with Charles Sumner Tainter and his cousin, Chichester A. Bell, Bell invented the Graphophone. Employing an engraving stylus, controllable speeds, and wax cylinders and disks, ...
- Volta Redonda
- city, western Rio de Janeiro estado (state), Brazil. It lies along the Paraiba do Sul River, at 1,500 feet (460 m) above sea level. The city is known for its steel manufacturing.
- Volta River
- chief river system of Ghana, formed from the confluence of the Black Volta and White Volta (qq.v.) headstreams. The Volta flows generally southward through Ghana, discharging into the Gulf of Guinea. Its major tributaries are the Afram and the Oti (Pandjari). The river system has a length of 1,000 miles ... [3 Related Articles]
- Volta, Conte Alessandro
- Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current. [9 Related Articles]
- Volta, Ingo della
- wealthy Genoese noble and financier who led a faction that dominated the government and commerce of Genoa in the 12th century during the period of the aristocratic so-called consular commune.
- volta, la
- 16th-century leaping and turning dance for couples, originating in Italy and popular at French and German court balls until about 1750. Performed with a notoriously intimate embrace, it became respectable, but never completely dignified, after Queen Elizabeth I of England danced it with the earl of Leicester.
- Volta, Lake
- artificial lake in Ghana. The lake is formed by the Akosombo Dam (q.v.), which, begun in 1961 and completed in 1965, dammed the Volta River just south of Ajena and created a lake extending upstream from the Akosombo Dam to Yapei, beyond the former confluence of the Black Volta and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Volta-Congo languages
- (from the article "Niger-Congo languages") The next divergences from the main language family gave rise to the languages now grouped as Atlantic and Ijoid. Subsequently the remaining group, labeled Volta-Congo, divided into five main branches: Kru, Kwa, Benue-Congo, Gur, and Adamawa-Ubangi. Dogon is included at this level because scholars have never been able to establish ...
- voltage multiplier
- (from the article "particle accelerator") The source of the high voltage for Cockcroft and Walton's pioneering experiments was a four-stage voltage multiplier assembled from four large rectifiers and high-voltage capacitors. Their circuit in effect combined four rectifier-type direct-voltage power supplies in series. The alternating voltage supplied by a high-voltage transformer was transmitted to the higher ...
- voltage rating
- (from the article "electric generator") The voltage rating of the generator is normally stated as the operating voltage between two of its three terminals-i.e., the phase-to-phase voltage. For a winding connected in delta, this is equal to the phase-winding voltage. For a winding connected in wye, it is equal to 3 times the phase-winding voltage.
- voltage regulator
- any electrical or electronic device that maintains the voltage of a power source within acceptable limits. The voltage regulator is needed to keep voltages within the prescribed range that can be tolerated by the electrical equipment using that voltage. Such a device is widely used in motor vehicles of all ... [1 Related Articles]
- Voltaian Basin
- (from the article "Ghana") ...are composed mostly of beds of shales (laminated sediments consisting mostly of particles of clay) and sandstones in which strata of limestone occur in places. They occupy a large area called the Voltaian Basin in the north-central part of the country where the elevation rarely exceeds 500 feet (150 metres). ...
- Voltaic
- (from the article "Africa") Among the more important of the savanna peoples are the three main clusters known as Mande in Senegal and Mali and including the Bambara, Malinke, and Soninke; the Gur-speaking (or Voltaic) group in the savanna zone to the east that includes the Senufo, Lobi, Dogon, and Moore; and in northern ...
- voltaic pile
- (from the article "Berzelius, Jons Jacob") Berzelius is best known for his system of electrochemical dualism. The electrical battery, invented in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and known as the voltaic pile, provided the first experimental source of current electricity. In 1803 Berzelius demonstrated, as did the English chemist Humphry Davy at a slightly later date, ...
- Voltaire
- one of the greatest of all French writers. Although only a few of his works are still read, he continues to be held in worldwide repute as a courageous crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and cruelty. Through its critical capacity, wit, and satire, Voltaire's work vigorously propagates an ideal of progress ... [36 Related Articles]
- voltammetry
- (from the article "analysis") Voltammetry can be used for both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a wide variety of molecular and ionic materials. In this method, a set of two or three electrodes is dipped into the analyte solution, and a regularly varying potential is applied to the indicator electrode relative to the reference ...
- voltammogram
- (from the article "analysis") ...reaction occurs, electrons are withdrawn from the electrode (for electrochemical reductions) or donated to the electrode (for oxidations), and a current flows in the external electrical circuit. A voltammogram is a plot of the current as a function of the applied potential. The shape of a voltammogram depends on the ...
- Volterra
- town and episcopal see, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, central Italy, northwest of Siena. As the ancient Velathri it was one of the 12 cities of the Etruscan confederation. It supported Rome during the Second Punic War in 205 BC, acquired Roman citizenship after the civil wars between Gaius Marius and Sulla ... [1 Related Articles]
- Volterra, Vito
- Italian mathematician who strongly influenced the modern development of calculus. [1 Related Articles]
- voltige
- (from the article "circus") Twentieth-century equestrian acts can be divided into three main groups: voltige, in which a rider vaults onto and off a horse's back; trick riding, in which the standing rider performs somersaults and pirouettes or forms human pyramids with other riders on one or more horses; and high school, a spectacular ...
- voltmeter
- instrument that measures voltages of either direct or alternating electric current on a scale usually graduated in volts, millivolts (0.001 volt), or kilovolts (1,000 volts). The typical commercial or laboratory standard voltmeter in use today is likely to employ an electromechanical mechanism in which current flowing through turns of wire ...
- Voltolini, Friedrich
- (from the article "otolaryngology") ...the laryngoscope's mirror upward to investigate the physiology of the nasopharyngeal cavity, thereby establishing an essential link between laryngology and rhinology. One of Czermak's assistants, Friedrich Voltolini, improved laryngoscopic illumination and also adapted the instrument for use with the otoscope.
- Volturno River
- river, south-central Italy. It rises in the Abruzzese Apennines near Alfedena and flows southeast as far as its junction with the Calore River near Caiazzo. It then turns southwest, past Capua, to enter the Tyrrhenian Sea at Castel Volturno, northwest of Naples. The river is 109 miles (175 km) long ... [1 Related Articles]
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