Definitions for "Volta"
A shift in tone, focus or viewpoint in a sonnet. The Volta usually occurs after line 8 (between the octave and the sestet. The Volta also occasionally occurs in the final couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet.
Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)
The place at which a distinct turn of thought occurs. The term is most commonly used for the characteristic transition point in a sonnet, as between the octave and sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet.
Volta is a lunar crater near the northwest limb of the Moon. It is located south-southeast of Xenophanes crater, and due north of the smaller Galvani crater. The Regnault crater lies across the western rim of Volta.
A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.