Usually means: Turning point in a sonnet.
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  1. Volta, volta: Merriam-Webster
  2. Volta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Volta: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. volta: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Volta: Vocabulary.com
  6. Volta, volta: Wordnik
  7. Volta, volta: Wiktionary
  8. Volta: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. volta: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Volta: Dictionary.com
  11. VOLTA (Cirque du Soleil), Volta (Brescia Metro), Volta (Cirque du Soleil), Volta (TV series), Volta (album), Volta (dance), Volta (disambiguation), Volta (film), Volta (literature), Volta (microarchitecture), Volta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Volta: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. volta: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Volta: Rhymezone
  15. Volta, volta: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Volta: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. volta: FreeDictionary.org
  18. volta: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. volta: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Volta: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. VOLTA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Volta (disambiguation), Volta: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Volta: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. volta: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See voltas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Volta)

noun:  (music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
noun:  (music, dance) A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
noun:  (poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
noun:  A census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States.
noun:  A surname from Italian.
noun:  Ellipsis of Volta River.: A river in West Africa, having given name to Upper Volta.
noun:  Ellipsis of Lake Volta.: A lake in West Africa

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