volta

noun

1. A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
2. A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
3. A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.

   “[…][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.”

name

1. A river in West Africa, having given its name to Upper Volta; in full, Volta River.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Lake Volta: a lake in West Africa.
3. A census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States.
4. A surname from Italian.