Lexikon Volt specifications

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Unit for the electrical voltage. Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. The unit sign is the capitalized V.

The electric voltage is a potential difference between two points. Voltages are therefore basically measured between two points of an electrical circuit. If only one point is specified, the other must be inferred from the context. Often it is the mass.

Example: The voltage of a commercially available Mignon battery cell is 1.5V. This is to be understood as meaning the voltage between the negative pole (the bottom) and the positive pole (the nipple at the top) of the battery cell.