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Volta

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Vol·ta  (vlt, vl-, vôl-)
A river formed in central Ghana by the confluence of the White Volta and the Black Volta and flowing about 467 km (290 mi) southward through artificial Lake Volta to the Bight of Benin in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Noun1.VoltaVolta - Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)
Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Conte Alessandro Volta, Count Alessandro Volta
2.Volta - a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin
Ghana, Gold Coast, Republic of Ghana - a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; "Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British"
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In 1880, the French Government gave him the Volta Prize of fifty thousand francs and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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