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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Vol·ta (vŏl'tə, vōl'-, 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.
| Music Encyclopedia: Volta |
(1) ‘Turn’: a court dance of Provençal origin popular from c1550 to 1650, characterized by three-quarter turns. These are executed partly with a high jump by each partner, partly by the gentleman lifting the lady high into the air. The music is in triple time but is commonly notated with six crotchets/quarter-notes in a bar.
(2) ‘Time’: the indications ‘prima volta’ and ‘seconda volta’ instruct the performer that the bars so marked are to be played only the first or the second time through a piece.
| Columbia Encyclopedia: Volta |
Volta (vól'tə), river, c.290 mi (470 km) long, formed in central Ghana, W Africa, by the confluence of the Black Volta (or Mouhon, c.840 mi/1,350 km long) and the White Volta (or Nakambe, c.450 mi/720 km long), both of which rise in Burkina Faso. The river flows generally south, through a large delta, to the Gulf of Guinea at Ada. The Volta River system drains c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km). Lake Volta (c.3,275 sq mi/8,480 sq km), one of the world's largest artificial lakes, extends c.280 mi (450 km) upstream behind Akosombo Dam, SE Ghana, in the Ajena Gorge. The dam (370 ft/113 m high; completed 1965), the principal unit of the Volta Development Project, regulates the flow of the Volta River, stores water for irrigation, and generates hydroelectricity (750,000-kW capacity) that supports a large aluminum industry. Since the 1980s, droughts have at times reduced the water impounded by the dam and diminished the electricity that can be generated.
| Poetry Glossary: Volta |
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.
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