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Battery
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- 1 A park in Manhattan, New York City.
- 1 A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells. countable
"alkaline battery"
- 2 an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact wordnet
- 3 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. countable, uncountable
"Her phone needs a new battery because its present battery no longer holds a charge well."
- 4 the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target wordnet
- 5 The energy stored in such a device. informal, metonymically, uncountable
"Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call."
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- 6 a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series wordnet
- 7 The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence. countable, uncountable
"Holonym: assault and battery"
- 8 a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores wordnet
- 9 A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns. countable
"Outside the ancient fort, you can still see worn areas in the stone where the batteries were once placed."
- 10 a collection of related things intended for use together wordnet
- 11 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. countable, uncountable
"They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot."
- 12 a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher wordnet
- 13 An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed. archaic, countable, historical, uncountable
"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"."
- 14 group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place wordnet
- 15 An array of similar things. countable, uncountable
"Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress."
- 16 A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs. countable, uncountable
"‘Do you know how battery chickens live?’"
- 17 The catcher and the pitcher together countable, uncountable
- 18 Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal countable, uncountable
- 19 A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance. countable, uncountable
- 20 The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired. countable, uncountable
"in battery"
- 21 Apparatus for preparing or serving meals. archaic, countable, uncountable
Etymology
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.
Named for a coastal artillery battery that once stood there.
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