Battery Definition

bătə-rē
batteries
noun
batteries
The act of battering, beating, or pounding.
Webster's New World
Machinery used in battering.
Webster's New World
A connected group of electrochemical cells that store electric charges and generate direct current.
Webster's New World
A series of cages or other restrictive compartments used as to confine hens for intensive laying.
Webster's New World
A group of similar things arranged, connected, or used together; set or series; array.
A battery of microphones, a battery of school achievement tests.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
cowhidingsnapperscelestaswitchingbeltingsizzlerstamp-batteryelectric batterybarrage fireshellingbombardmentbarrageassault and batterytam-tamviolence
Antonyms:
individual
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other
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.
American Heritage
A battery with no accompanying aggravated circumstances and not resulting in serious bodily injury.
Webster's New World Law

See aggravated.

Webster's New World Law
idiom
in battery
  • in firing position after recovery from the recoil of a previous discharge
Webster's New World
the Battery
  • a park in New York City, at the S tip of Manhattan: 21 acres
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Other Word Forms of Battery

Noun

Singular:
battery
Plural:
batteries

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Battery

  • in battery
  • the Battery

Origin of Battery

  • Middle English batri forged metal ware from Old French baterie a beating from batre to batter batter1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”).

    From Wiktionary

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Battery Sentence Examples

  • The battery in the lantern might be dead or the fall might have broken it.

  • Now, we know that the number of electrochemical equivalents electrolysed is proportional to the whole amount of electricity which passed through the circuit, and the product of this by the electromotive force of the battery is the work done by the latter, so that in this case also Joule showed that the heat generated was proportional to the work done.

  • I bought a battery, but it didn't do any good.

  • I just came back from a battery of tests that said nothing's wrong with me.

  • He bought some battery powered lights to hang on the wagon and Gerald helped him pile hay on the wagon.

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Words Starting With

BBABAT

Words Ending With

YRYERY

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Words Starting With B and Ending With Y

Starts With B & Ends With YStarts With BA & Ends With YStarts With B & Ends With RY

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With B7 Letter Words Ending With Y
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