Meaning of battery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells
2. A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
   countable
3. A park in Manhattan, New York City.
4. Such a device that has multiple cells
5. Such a device that has multiple cells.
   countable, uncountable
6. A park at the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the upper end of New York Bay in southeast New York. It is the site of early Dutch and English fortifications and of Castle Clinton, built in 1808 for the defense of the harbor.
7. The energy stored in such a device
8. The energy stored in such a device.
   informal, metonymically, uncountable
9. A device containing an electric cell or a series of electric cells that supplies a direct current by converting chemical, thermal, nuclear, or solar energy into electric energy. Common household batteries, such as those used in a flashlight, are usually made of dry cells (the chemicals producing the current are made into a paste). In other batteries, such as car batteries, these chemicals are in liquid form.
10. The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence
11. The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
    countable, uncountable
12. an intentional act that, directly or indirectly, causes harmful contact with another’s person.
13. A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns
14. Electricity A device containing an electric cell or a series of electric cells storing chemical energy that can be converted into electrical energy, usually in the form of direct current.
    Electricity
15. A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
    countable
16. The act of beating or pounding.
17. Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
    countable, uncountable
18. An emplacement for one or more pieces of artillery.
19. An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
    archaic, countable, historical, uncountable
20. An array of similar things intended for use together: took a battery of achievement tests.
21. An array of similar things.
    countable, uncountable
22. Baseball A pitcher and catcher considered as a unit.
    Baseball
23. A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
    countable, uncountable
24. Music The percussion section of an orchestra.
    Music
25. The catcher and the pitcher together
    countable, uncountable
26. (Electronics) a. two or more primary cells connected together, usually in series, to provide a source of electric current
27. Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
    countable, uncountable
28. A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
    countable, uncountable
29. The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
    countable, uncountable
30. Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.
    archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“alkaline battery”

“sodium-ion battery”

“lead-acid battery”

“His flashlight takes two AA batteries.”

“His car takes a 550-CCA lead-acid battery.”

“For GMRS [General Mobile Radio Service], rechargeable packs alone do not provide the flexibility that user replaceable batteries can. For instance, once the pack is discharged, it must be placed in the charger and recharged, which can take from one to several hours, leaving you unable to use your radio until the pack is recharged unless you have purchased an extra pack. Extra battery packs are bulky and pricey. With radios using replaceable AA and AAA batteries, you never have to worry about recharging or buying extra packs. You can carry charged replacement batteries in your pocket, purse, or bag, and in an emergency you can even go to a store and buy some alkaline batteries so you can be up and running again.”

“Her phone needs a new battery because its present battery no longer holds a charge well.”

“1749 Benjamin Franklin, letter to Peter Collinson Upon this We made what we call’d an Electrical Battery, consisting of eleven Panes of large Sash Glass, arm’d with thin leaden Plates, pasted on each Side... A Turky is to be killed for our Dinners by the Electrical Shock; and roasted by the electrical Jack, before a Fire kindled by the Electrified Bottle; when the Healths of all the Famous Electricians in England, France and Germany, are to be drank in Electrified Bumpers, under the Discharge of Guns from the Electrical Battery.”

“[For his experiments with electricity,] Benjamin Franklin utilized Leyden jars and referred to several jars hooked together as a battery (after a "battery" of cannon).”

“[The voltage of a single cell is] too low for most applications [... so] a series of cells will be used to obtain the desired voltage – a "battery" of cells, in the strictest sense of the term.”

“Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call.”

“A: How much battery do you have left? B: Only 63%.”

“Holonym: assault and battery”

“[…] A battery is the actual infliction of unlawful personal violence. […] [The defendant] fell to the ground and lashed out with his feet and in doing so kicked the hand of one of the police officers, fracturing a bone. He was charged with assault […] although this was a battery.”

“He offered three types of battery for which Mr. Trump might be liable under New York law: rape, sexual abuse and forcible touching.”

“An order asserted itself, and the hoods on the furnaces were oped wide, and a final march was organized. The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.”

“Outside the ancient fort, you can still see worn areas in the stone where the batteries were once placed.”

“They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.”

“the marines had six 8-inch howitzers, eight 4.2-inch mortars, and three 105-mm howitzer batteries, each with six pieces.”

“The construction of advanced batteries mirrored that of those built along the line of circumvallation. [...] Although Mahan demanded that batteries be constructed to exacting dimensions and revetted with gabions, fascines, and sandbags, at Vicksburg the resources at hand determined what materials soldiers used to build what they termed artillery "forts".”

“such forts being so contrived as to have two or three batteries, one higher than the other, furnished with many cannon.”

“His grand battery was as badly provided with cannon as his little battery, for not a single gun was mounted on either.”

“On this wharf [Tower Bridge wharf] there is a long and beautiful platform, on which are planted 61 pieces of cannon [...] Devil's Battery, where is also a platform, on which are mounted seven pieces of cannon, although on the battery itself there are only five.”

“Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.”

“‘Do you know how battery chickens live?’”

“in battery”

“out of battery”

“In this circumstance, you will have to rack the slide to get back in battery.”

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