Volta
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Volta may refer to:
- Lake Volta in Ghana
- Burkina Faso, the country formerly named Upper Volta
- The Volta River, consisting of the:
- Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery; the Volta Prize in accociation with the Academie Francaise and the Alessandro Volta Foundation, its Volta Conference (an interwar cycle of cultural meetings) were named after him
- Volta, a 2007 album by Björk
- Toyota Alessandro Volta, a hybrid concept vehicle named after the physicist
- The Mars Volta, an American musical group
- Lavolta ("The Volta"), a Renaissance dance for couples
- Volta a Portugal, an annual professional road bicycle race in Portugal
- Volta a Catalunya, an annual professional road bicycle race in Catalonia, Spain
- Volta, a Swedish brand of vacuum cleaners.
- Volta, the name for a change in subject matter or "turning point" in a sonnet, from Italian for "turn".
- Volta, an Estonian company aimed mainly on electric motor and generator manufacturing.
- Volta, a 2004 Philippine movie starring Ai-Ai de las Alas adn was directed by Wenn V. Deramas.
- Volta, a loan origination platform developed by Cology, a technology company located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- Volta, a common step in the latin American dance, Samba.
- Volta, a web development toolset by Microsoft