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Volkswagen Phaeton The Volkswagen Phaeton (pronounced "fey-i-tn") is a large luxury sedan manufactured by Volkswagen. It currently serves as the flagship of the Volkswagen line-up, competing with other high-end flagship sedans such as the Jaguar XJ, BMW 7 Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
Volkswagen Pointer The Volkswagen Pointer is a small family car sold by Volkswagen in South America between 1994 and 1996. The Pointer was available as a five-door hatchback, and the two-door sedan version, called the Volkswagen Logus, was sold between 1993 and 1997.
Volkswagen Polo Mk III The Volkswagen Polo Mk III is the third generation of the Volkswagen Polo supermini, produced from 1994 until 2000. It was produced in two forms, the initial car (1994-2000) being known as the Mk III, and the updated version (2000-2002) known as Mk IIIF.
Volkswagen Polo Playa The Volkswagen Polo Playa was a supermini sized car sold in South Africa from 1996 until 2002, which was a rebadged version of the SEAT Ibiza Mk II. A separate model, the Polo Mk III was sold in most markets inlcuding Western Europe during this period - this model shared its mechanical components with the Ibiza and Playa, but in hatchback form the body panels were all different.
Volkswagen Sharan The Volkswagen Sharan is a large MPV produced by the German automaker Volkswagen since 1995. Produced in a joint venture with Ford, it sells a version of the same model as the Ford Galaxy, and VW's Spanish subsidiary SEAT sells another version, known as the Alhambra.
Volkswagen Schwimmwagen The VW Schwimmwagen (Porsche Type 128 and Type 166) was an amphibious vehicle used extensively by the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. It was mechanically based on the KĂĽbelwagen (which in turn was based on the civilian Volkswagen, later known as a VW Beetle), and was produced by the Volkswagen factory at Wolfsburg, with the bodies (or rather hulls) produced by Ambi Budd in Berlin.
Volkswagen T platform The T platform is Volkswagen Group's van platform, and has been used for the Volkswagen Transporter range for over 55 years. Though not technically a platform until recently (enthusiasts retroactively named the T1-T3), it is still an official VW platform.
Volkswagen Touran The Volkswagen Touran is a compact MPV based on a vertically stretched fifth generation of the Volkswagen Golf and sold in Europe and some other selected markets. It was launched in 2003 to fill a perceived gap in Volkswagen's model lineup below the Sharan large MPV.
Volkswagen Type 2 The Volkswagen Type 2 was the second automotive line introduced by German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen. It was a van introduced in 1950, initially based on Volkswagen's first model, the Type 1, also known as the "Beetle".
Volkswagen Westfalia Campers Volkswagen began subcontracting to the Westfalia-werke Wieddndruck, or more typically Westfalia, to build the official Volkswagen Camper cars sold in the early 1950's through 2003. Many models and interesting options were available for these vehicles.
Volla (comics) Volla is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. Volla died after making known her prophecies of Ragnarok, but those who are brave and powerful enough to journey into the realm of the dead may still obtain prophecies from her.
Vollan prison Vollan prison, in Trondheim, Norway functioned as a concentration camp during the Nazi occupation of Norway. It was primarily used for transit purposes for prisoners who were either bound for execution, work camps, or extermination camps.
Volley (tennis) A volley in tennis is a shot that is hit before the ball bounces on the ground. Generally a player hits a volley while standing near the net, although there are instances where it is executed farther back, in the middle of the tennis court or even near the baseline.
Volley League Volley League is a variety of football usually played amongst friends without a competitive nature. According historical research Volley League originated around the greater Belfast area and has been spreading rapidly throughout the province of Ulster.
Volley squash Volley squash is a form of volleyball played within a squash court or similar sized enclosed space with a high ceiling. An eight foot high net is placed at halfway across the squash court and a soft blowup ball similar in size to a football is used.
Volley theory Volley theory attempts to account for the maximum theoretical limit for the neuronal firing of action potentials and the small time scales over which sound discrimination must occur. In this theory, the organ of corti in the cochlear that transduces the sound into action potentials must combine multiple stimuli along the cochlear nerve within a volley in order to encode high frequency auditory stimuli.
Volleyball Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms, or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. Each team is allowed three hits to get the ball over the net to the other team.
Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Olympics Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team and women's team. It was held at the Minor Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium and at the Druzhba (Friendship) Multi-Purpose Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium, both located at Luzhniki (south-western part of Moscow).
Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of indoor volleyball held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium and beach volleyball held at the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre, in the southern portion of the Roth Pavilion; both were located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex.
Volleyball at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games Volleyball at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games consisted of indoor volleyball held at the West Negros College in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines and beach volleyball held at the University of St. La Salle Grounds also in Bacolod City.
Volleyball England Volleyball England, formerly known as the English Volleyball Association or EVA, is the controlling body for volleyball in England. It picks the national team, runs the National Volleyball League, National Knock-Out Cup and Student Cup and organises the training and assessment of referees and coaches.
Volleyball Hall of Fame The Volleyball Hall of Fame was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The hall is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G.
Volleyball in the United States In the United States volleyball is popular with both male and female participants of all ages; however, almost all high schools and colleges have female volleyball teams; significantly fewer have male teams. Some claim this is due in part to the provisions of Title IX requiring institutions to fund men's and women's sports equally overall but not necessarily equally for an individual sport.
Volna Space launch vehicle Volna ("wave" in Russian), is a converted SLBM used for launching artificial satellites into Orbit. It is based on the R-29R designed by State Rocket Center Makayev and related to the Shtil' Launch Vehicle .
Volney Rogers Volney Rogers (December 1, 1846 - December 3, 1919) was a lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio, best known for his arduous but ultimately successful effort to turn Mill Creek "hollow" into one of the nation's most celebrated metropolitan parks. Rogers was also a seminal figure in the history of America's state park system and served as counsel for the American Civic Association, a group dedicated to the preservation of Niagara Falls.
Volo di Notte Volo di Notte (Night Flight) is a one-act opera composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to an Italian libretto he wrote based on the novel Vol de nuit by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on May 18, 1940.
Volodymyr Ivasyuk Volodymyr Mykhaylovych Ivasyuk (1949-1979) (also Ivasiuk) () was a very popular composer and poet from Ukraine. He is the author of the widely popular song Chervona Ruta, popularized by Sofia Rotaru but later covered by other singers as well.
Volodymyr Kubiyovych Volodymyr Kubiyovych, also spelled Kubiiovych or KubijovyÄŤ (; (23 September 1900, Nowy SÄ…cz, western Galicia, ( in German Neu Sandez), in old Austria-Hungary - 2 November 1985, Paris, France) was a Ukrainian geographer with a specialty in demography, a cartographer, an encyclopedist, politician, and statesman. Of mixed Ukrainian and Polish family background, he was an important intellectual supporting the Ukrainian national movement in inter-war Poland, and his scholarly works from this period dealt with the Ukrainian ethnic presence in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania, and with the geographical boundaries of ethnographic Ukraine.
Volodymyr Vynnychenko Volodymyr Vynnychenko ( Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko) ( – March 6, 1951) was a Ukrainian politician, statesman, and writer. Vynnychenko is recognized in Ukrainian literature as a leading modernist, prerevolutionary writer in Ukraine, who wrote short stories, novels, and plays, but in Soviet Ukraine his works were proscribed, like that of many other Ukrainian writers, from the 1930s until the mid-1980s.
Volodymyr Vynnytsky Volodymyr Vynnytsky, a laureate of the Margueritte Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris (1983), has established himself as a distinctive musical personality and has received critical audience acclaim for his fresh and penetrating readings of scores. Residing in the US since 1991, he is a visiting member of the faculty at State University of New York, in Purchase, N.
Vologases IV of Parthia Vologases IV of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire from 147 to 191. The son of Mithridates IV of Parthia (129–140), he united the two halves of the empire which had been split between his father and Vologases III of Parthia (105–147).
Volokolamsk Volokolamsk () is the town and administrative center of Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Gorodenka River, not far from its confluence with the Lama River, 129 km northwest of Moscow . Population: 16,700 (2003 est.
Volokolamskaya (Reserved) Volokolamskaya () is an unopened station on the Moscow Metro's Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line which is located under the Tushino airfield. It was constructed in 1975 as part of the northern extension of the Krasnopresnenskiy radius but never opened.
Volothamp Geddarm Volothamp Geddarm - "Volo" for short - is arguably one of the two most lasting fictional characters created by Ed Greenwood for the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, along with Elminster.
Volozhin yeshiva The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as the Eitz Chaim yeshiva, was a yeshiva situated in Volozhin, present-day Belarus in the 19th century. The yeshiva was founded by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin in 1803 who was a student of the Vilna Gaon.
Volpone Volpone, or The Fox (in Italian: "Big Fox"), is a black comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among the finest Jacobean comedies.
Volsci The Volsci were an ancient Italic people, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. They then inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the south, the Hernici on the east, and stretching roughly from Norba and Cora in the north to Antium in the south.
Volsoc Volsoc is an American electronica project, consisting of Justin Maxwell and Jean-Paul Bondy. The project formed after a series of collaborative live performances in the Southern California rave scene in 1999-2000.
Volsung In Norse mythology, VÇ«lsung was murdered by the Geatish king Siggeir and avenged by one of his sons, Sigmund. VÇ«lsung was the common ancestor of the ill-fortuned clan of the VÇ«lsungs, including the greatest of Norse heroes, Sigurd.
Volsunga saga The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Volsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians). It is largely based on epic poetry.
Volt Technical Resources Volt Technical Resources (usually referred to as simply Volt) is a large 3rd-party recruiting organization / employment agency based in New York City but with operations primarily on the western seaboard. Volt Technical Resources is a subsidiary of Volt Information Sciences (NYSE: VOL) and accounted for 90.
Volt-amperes reactive In alternating-current power transmission and distribution, volt-amperes reactive (VARs) are the product of the rms voltage and current, or the apparent power, multiplied by the sine of the phase angle between the voltage and the current. Or in mathematical terms, the reactive power Q, (measured in units of volt-amperes reactive or VARs), is given by
Volta Do Mar The phrase volta do mar, in Portuguese, means literally turn of the sea, or more correctly return from the sea, the phenomenon of wind-wheels. It was a sailing technique discovered when returning from the Atlantic islands where you first had to sail in the wrong direction (north-south) to catch good winds and return to Europe.
Volta Do Mar (band) Volta Do Mar is a math rock band from Chicago, Illinois formed in 1999. They are often noted for their seemingly incessant touring; in support of their first full-length album, At the Speed of Light or Day, they toured the U.
Volta Redonda Volta Redonda is the name of a city in the Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with 182,81 km² of area, located from 350m to 707m from the sea level (22º31'23" S, 44º06'15" W) and with a population of 258.145 inhabitants (estimated in 2006).
Volta-Congo languages In the classification of African languages, Volta-Congo is a major branch (in terms of number of languages) of the Niger-Congo phylum. Itself part of Atlantic-Congo, the Volta-Congo branch is divided in two major groupings: East and West.
Voltage clamp The voltage clamp is used by electrophysiologists to measure the ion currents across a neuronal membrane while holding the membrane voltage at a set level. Neuronal membranes contain many different kinds of ion channels, some of which are voltage gated.
Voltage converter A voltage converter changes the voltage of an electrical power source and is usually combined with other components to create a power supply. The term "voltage converter" is sometimes used as a generic term for a power supply.
Voltage divider rule In electronics, the voltage divider rule, or simply the voltage divider, resistor divider or potential divider, is a design technique used to create a voltage (Vout) which is proportional to another voltage (Vin).
Voltage droop Voltage droop is the loss in output voltage from a device as it tries to drive a load.Digital Logic Noise, Phase Jitter, EMI, RFI and other issues on Leroy's Engineering Web Site Droops are typically temporary and occur due to the charging time of a capacitive load, the length of which is related to the time constant of the RC circuit.
Voltage drop Voltage drop is the reduction in voltage in an electrical circuit between the source and utilitization device. Voltage drop, which is present in all electrical circuits powering any device, must be considered to varying degrees in circuit design.
Voltage Identification Digital Voltage Identification Digital or VID means that a voltage-producing unit produces a voltage as specified by a digital input. For example, a unit with 4-bit VID would output one of at most 16 distinct output voltages.
Voltage ladder A voltage ladder is a simple electronic circuit consisting of several resistors connected in series with a voltage placed across the entire resistor network. Voltage ladders are useful for providing a set of successive voltage references, for instance for a Flash analog-to-digital converter.
Voltage reference A voltage reference is an electronic device (circuit or component) that produces a fixed (constant) voltage irrespective of the loading on the device, power supply variation and temperature. It is also known as a voltage source, but in the strict sense of the term, a voltage reference often sits at the heart of a voltage source.
Voltage regulation In electrical engineering, particularly power engineering, voltage regulation is the ability of a system to provide near constant voltage over a wide range of load conditions. It is a dimensionless quantity defined as:
Voltage source A voltage source is any device or system that produces an electromotive force between its terminals OR derives a secondary voltage from a primary source of the electromotive force. A primary voltage source does not need external power to operate, whereas most electronic voltage sources (as depicted in this article) are of the 'secondary' type and require an external energy source.
Voltage spike Voltage spikes are fast, short duration electrical transients (overvoltages) in the electric potential of an circuit. These are typically caused by lightning strikes, although power outages, tripped circuit breakers, short circuits, power transitions in other large equipment on the same power line, and malfunctions caused by the power company can also cause them.
Voltage-controlled oscillator A voltage-controlled oscillator or VCO is an electronic oscillator specifically designed to be controlled in oscillation frequency by a voltage input. The frequency of oscillation, or rate of repetition, is varied with an applied DC voltage, while modulating signals may be fed into the VCO to generate frequency modulation (FM), phase modulation (PM), and pulse-width modulation (PWM).
Voltage-dependent calcium channel Voltage-dependent calcium channels (VDCC) are a group of voltage-gated ion channels found in excitable cells (neurons, glial cells, muscle cells, etc.) with a permeability to the ion Ca2+, which plays a role in the membrane potential.
Voltage-gated ion channel Voltage-gated ion channels are a class of transmembrane ion channels that are activated by changes in electrical potential difference near the channel; these types of ion channels are especially critical in neurons, but are common in many types of cells.
Voltage-gated potassium channel Voltage-gated potassium channels are transmembrane channels specific for potassium and sensitive to voltage changes in the cell's membrane potential. They play a crucial role during action potentials in returning the depolarized cell to a resting state.
Voltaic pile The Voltaic pile was the first modern electric battery, invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800. Volta demonstrated that when metals and chemicals come into contact with each other they produced an electrical current.
Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party (Parti communiste révolutionnaire voltaïque, PCRV) is a communist party in Burkina Faso. It was founded on 1 October 1978, following a split in the Voltaic Communist Organization (OCV).
Voltaic Solidarity Voltaic Solidarity (in French: Solidarité Voltaïque) was a political alliance in Upper Volta formed after the territorial elections in 1957. SV was constituted by the Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses (PSEMA), African Popular Movement (MPA) and the Voltaic Democratic Movement (MDV).
Voltaire (musician) Voltaire (Born in January 25, 1967, Havana, Cuba The 'Biography' page at Voltaire's official website is a musician in the goth] scene who takes his stage name from the pen name of the famous [[French Enlightenment writer François-Marie Arouet. In addition to his musical career, Voltaire is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, an artist (with comics, cartoons, and stop-motion animation), and has also done work as a director.
Voltaire Network The Réseau Voltaire (Voltaire Network) is an international non-profit organisation, based in Paris, which states it aims at promoting freedom and secularism (laïcité), that is separation of church and state, faith and politics.
Voltairine de Cleyre Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866–June 20, 1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced"; yet she is not widely known even among anarchists today.
Voltammetry Voltammetry is a category of electroanalytical methods used in analytical chemistry and various industrial processes. In voltammetry, information about an analyte is obtained by measuring the current as the potential is varied.
Voltamp Voltamp was an early American manufacturer of toy trains based in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded by Manes Fuld (1863-1929), the son of a Baltimore stove dealer, Voltamp's trains utilized the same 2-inch gauge metal track as Carlisle & Finch, the inventor of the electric toy train, and is significant for its 1907 release of the first electric toy train that operated on household alternating current.
Voltas Voltas Limited is an engineering, air conditioning and refrigeration company based in Mumbai, India. It offers engineering solutions for a wide spectrum of industries in areas such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning, refrigeration, electro-mechanical projects, textile machinery, machine tools, mining and construction equipment, materials handling, water management, building management systems, indoor air quality and chemicals.
Volterra operator In mathematics, in the area of functional analysis and operator theory, the Volterra operator represents the operation of indefinite integration, viewed as a bounded linear operator on the space L2(0,1) of complex-valued square integrable functions on the interval (0,1). It is the operator corresponding to the Volterra integral equations.
Volterra space In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be a Volterra space if any finite intersection of dense open subsets is dense. Every Baire space is Volterra, but the converse is not true.
Voltor Voltor (English: Vulture) is a Hardcore-Ska music band from Aldaia (Valencian Country). Their lyrics talk about issues like freedom of speech, defense of a territory and its roots as well as the social justice.
Voltumna In Etruscan mythology, Voltumna was the chthonic (earth) god; and, later to become the supreme god of the Etruscan pantheon. His cult was centered in Volsini (modernday Orvieto) a polis of the Etruscan Civilization of north west Italy.
Volume The volume of a solid object is a numerical value given to describe the three-dimensional concept of how much space it occupies. One-dimensional objects (such as lines) and two-dimensional objects (such as squares) are assigned zero volume in the three-dimensional space.
Volume (computing) In the context of computer operating systems, Volume is the term used to describe a single accessible storage area with a single filesystem, typically (though not necessarily) resident on a single partition of a hard disk. Similarly, it refers to the logical interface used by an operating system to access data stored on some media using a single instance of a filesystem.
Volume 1: Then We Take Japan Volume 1: Then We Take Japan is a collection of b-sides and rarities plus four videos released in Japan on November 8th 2006. It is comprised of a CD with 11 tracks and a DVD containing four videos, three of which are of live performances.
Volume 2: How I Fucked Off All My Friends How I Fucked Off All My Friends is the second Unreleased/Unreleasable album by the Sheffield, UK, instrumental math rock band 65daysofstatic. As with their first unreleasable album, it was only ever sold at live shows, and as such it is extremely rare.
Volume 3: The Kids Have Eyes Volume 3: The Kids Have Eyes is an officially unreleased DVD by the Sheffield, UK, instrumental math rock band 65daysofstatic. It contains 3 music videos, two bootleg cut-ups (with 65daysofstatic tracks backing them), a tour documentary, and a live version of Aod.
Volume Boot Record A Volume Boot Record (also known as a volume boot sector or a partition boot sector, although the latter is not strictly correct) is a type of boot sector, stored in a disc volume on a hard disk, floppy disk, or similar data storage device, that contains code for bootstrapping programs (usually, but not necessarily, operating systems) stored in other parts of the volume. On non-partitioned storage devices, it is the first sector of the device.
Volume form In mathematics, a volume form is a nowhere zero differential n-form on an oriented n-manifold. Every volume form defines a measure on the manifold, and thus a means to calculate volumes in a generalized sense.
Volume license key Volume License key (VLK) is the term used by Microsoft to denote the product key used when installing software licensed under Volume Licensing, which allows a single product key to be used for multiple installations. This form of licensing is typically used in business, government, and educational institutions, with prices for Volume Licensing varying depending on the type and size of the setting.
Volume logic plug-in Volume Logic Plug-In is the very first audio enhancing plug-in developed for Apple iTunes. Developed by Octiv, Inc, the Volume Logic plug-in has since become compatible with iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, Musicmatch Jukebox, and Real Player.
Volume magazine Volume magazine was a music magazine which was published in the UK in the early to mid 1990s. The 192-page magazines were the size and shape of jewel cases, and each issue included a CD which contained a track from each artist who was featured in that issue.
Volume of distribution The volume of distribution (VD) , also known as apparent volume of distribution, is a pharmacological term used to quantify the distribution of a drug throughout the body after oral or parenteral dosing. It is defined as the volume in which the amount of drug would need to be uniformly distributed in to produce the observed blood concentration.
Volume One Volume One was the first album recorded by the influential psychedelic rock band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. The album was first released in 1966 on the small record label, FIFO, before being reissued on compact disc in 1997 by the recording label Sundazed.
Volume serial number A volume serial number is a feature of the FAT and NTFS file systems used to determine if a disk is present in a drive or not, and which disk it is. The identification system was created by Microsoft and IBM during their development of OS/2.
Volume Shadow Copy Service Previous Versions is a feature in recent versions of Microsoft Windows that provides periodic snapshots of a system's volumes. It was previously known as Volume Shadow Copy Service and also called Volume Snapshot Service (VSS).
Volume Slider A volume slider is a type of volume control device found on certain electronic devices. It usually consists of a small plastic or metal part mounted on a side of the device that can slide back and forth a short distance, adjusting the volume up or down depending on which way you slide it.
Volumen Volumen is a pop band from Missoula, Montana, United States, who specialize in upbeat rock music with a comedic twist. Its bandmembers are Volumen1 (Shane Hickey, guitar), Volumen2 (Doug Smith, guitar), Volumen Squared (Bryan Hickey, bass), Volumen Beta (Bob Marshall, drums), and Volumen Bkcawck (Chris Bacon, keyboards).
Volumes 5 & 6 This is a compilation of the fifth and sixth Desert Sessions releases. Queens of the Stone Age later performed "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" on their Songs for the Deaf album, and "Rickshaw" has often been included in their live set.
Volumes 9 & 10 Volumes 9 & 10 is the fifth compilation from Josh Homme's ongoing collaborative side project, The Desert Sessions. 9 & 10 features PJ Harvey, Ween's Dean Ween, Marilyn Manson's (and currently of Nine Inch Nails) Twiggy Ramirez, Eleven's (and current Queen of the Stone Age) Alain Johannes, as well as Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo, both current members of Queens of the Stone Age (also of A Perfect Circle and (formerly) Danzig, respectively).
Volumetric display A volumetric display device is a graphical display device that forms a visual representation of an object in three physical dimensions, as opposed to the planar image of traditional screens that simulate depth through a number of different visual effects. One definition offered by pioneers in the field is that volumetric displays create 3-D imagery via the emission, scattering, or relaying of illumination from well-defined regions in (x,y,z) space.
Volumetric efficiency Volumetric efficiency in internal combustion engine design refers to the efficiency with which the engine can move the charge into and out of the cylinders. More correctly, volumetric efficiency is a ratio (or percentage) of what volume of fuel and air actually enters the cylinder during induction to the actual capacity of the cylinder under static conditions.
Volumetric flask A volumetric flask (vol flask for short) is a type of laboratory flask (piece of laboratory glassware) used to contain or measure a very precise and accurate amount of a liquid. It is shaped like a Florence flask with a flatter bottom so as to not tip over.
Volumetric flow rate In fluid dynamics, the volumetric flow rate, also volume flow rate and rate of fluid flow, is the volume of fluid which passes through a given volume per unit time (for example cubic meters per second [m3/s] in basic SI units or gallons per minute). It is also called flux.
Volumetric heat capacity Volumetric heat capacity (VHC) describes the ability of a given volume of a substance to store heat while undergoing a given temperature change, but without undergoing a phase change. It is different from specific heat capacity in that the VHC depends on the volume of the material, while the specific heat is based on the mass of the material.
Volumetric lighting Volumetric lighting is a technique used in 3D computer graphics to add lighting to a rendered scene. The term seems to have been introduced from cinematography and is now widely applied to 3D modelling and rendering especially in the field of 3D gaming.
Volumetric weight Volumetric weight is a device used by the Post Office and other courier services in the United Kingdom to charge you more than you would otherwise pay if you were charged strictly on a weight basis. For details see the ParcelForce site
Voluntarian A voluntarian is a person who believes that any social or political participation should be voluntary in a society. If you do not choose to participate in a social structure, then you should have the ability to secede from the entity and become involved with another social structure that is more conducive to your beliefs.

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