battery.
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
Meaning & usage
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
alkaline battery
sodium-ion battery
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells. Such a device that has multiple cells.
Her phone needs a new battery because its present battery no longer holds a charge well.
The energy stored in such a device.
Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call.
A: How much battery do you have left? B: Only 63%.
The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
Outside the ancient fort, you can still see worn areas in the stone where the batteries were once placed.
A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns. Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.
An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
An array of similar things.
Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
The catcher and the pitcher together
Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
A group of barracuda.
The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
in battery
out of battery
Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y. The electrical sense was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.
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