volta

English Thesaurus

1. a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	river,
definition	:	a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) (noun.object)

part meronym	:	ghana, gold coast, republic of ghana,
definition	:	a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea (noun.location)

2. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827) (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	physicist,
definition	:	a scientist trained in physics (noun.person)