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battery

Meaning

  1. (countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
  3. (informal, metonymically, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
  5. (countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
  7. (archaic, countable, historical, uncountable) An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
  8. (countable, uncountable) An array of similar things.
  9. (countable, uncountable) A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
  10. (countable, uncountable) The catcher and the pitcher together
  11. (countable, uncountable) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
  12. (countable, uncountable) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
  13. (countable, uncountable) The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
  14. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.

Synonyms

accumulator

storage battery

electric battery

cell
A2
dry cell
company
A1
barrage
21k
band
B1
set
A1
assault and battery
pack
B1
group
A2
platoon
C1
bombardment
21k
pile
B2
clutch
C2

barrage fire

cluster
C2
nest
B2
squad
B2
series
B1
stamp battery
troop
C1
block
B1

torch-cell

body
A1
nexus
28k
knot
C1
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shelling
24k
army
A2
mob
B2
fort
B2
bunch
B1
gathering
C1
corps
C1
battalion
C1
covey
family
A1
👪
batch
C1
division
B2
string
B2
🪢
bracket
24k
brace
C1
bat
B2
🦇
box
A2
📦
barren
C2
boar
C2
🐗
barrel
B2
clump
29k
blow
A2
Translations

batterie
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pile
batería
Batterie
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batteria
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batterij
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pila

μπαταρία

pila
accumulatore
bateria
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bateria
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accu
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Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbæt.ə.ɹi/
Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y. The sense “electric battery” was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.

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