Battery
['bæt(ə)rɪ] or ['bætri]
Definition
(noun.) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact.
(noun.) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series.
(noun.) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores.
(noun.) a collection of related things intended for use together; 'took a battery of achievement tests'.
(noun.) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher.
(noun.) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place.
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Definition
(v. t.) The act of battering or beating.
(v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
(v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
(v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
(v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
(v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
(v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
(v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
(v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
(v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
(v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together.
Editor: Xenia
Definition
n. (Shak.) a wound: a number of cannon with their equipment: the place on which cannon are mounted: the men and horses attending one battery constituting the unit in the artillery: an instrument used in electric and galvanic experiments: (law) an assault by beating or wounding: apparatus for preparing or serving meals.—Cross batteries two batteries commanding the same spot from different directions; Floating battery (see Float); Masked battery a battery in action out of the enemy's view; To change one's battery to alter the direction of attacking.
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Examples
- Would the cliff resist this new battery? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The sign Bell out of order is usually due to the fact that the battery is either temporarily or permanently exhausted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The effect instantly ceases when the current is interrupted by breaking connection with either pole of the battery. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The newspapers had previously published articles showing the unusual capacity and performance of the battery, and public interest had thus been greatly awakened. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A continuously operative primary battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Scientists and inventors now had two forms of electrical machines to produce light: the voltaic battery and the magneto-electric apparatus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The carbon being only slightly compressed will offer considerable resistance to the flow of current from the local battery, and therefore the signal on the local sounder will be weak. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Of course, we all remember how the battery was completed and put on the market. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So far Morse had only used his recorder over a few yards of wire, his electro-magnet had been of the simplest make, and his battery was a single pair of plates. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When current is made, the relay attracts an armature, which thereby closes a circuit in a local battery and thus causes a click of the sounder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The buzzer, R, is maintained in rapid vibration by its independent auxiliary battery, B<1S>. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To effect that object, it is necessary to employ a voltaic battery separated from the vessel in which the decomposition takes place. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The point between Fort Stedman and Battery No. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As this causes a loud repetition of the original signals, it will be seen that relaying is an economic method of extending a telegraph circuit beyond the natural limits of its battery power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I went there and found over eighty cells of the well-known Grove nitric-acid battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are called the two fluid batteries, because in place of a single acidulated bath in which the dissimilar metals were before placed, two different liquid solutions were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It has been proved by Mr. Grove that the cost of ordinary batteries necessary to maintain the light in full brilliancy would greatly exceed the price of an equal light from gas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The great growth of automobile carriages in the past year has greatly stimulated the output of storage batteries. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Admiral Porter proceeded with the preparation of the steamers for their hazardous passage of the enemy's batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Many people now charge their own batteries because of lack of facilities; but I believe central stations will find in this work very soon the largest part of their load. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was one of the first storage batteries of M. Faure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- On the night of the 22d of April they ran the batteries, five getting through more or less disabled while one was sunk. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I would also reduce the number of guns to a battery, or the number of batteries, and put the extra teams to the guns taken. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Further elaboration of this method was made later by the addition of rheostats, condensers, and local opposition batteries on long lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Most of the time he was monkeying with the batteries and circuits, and devising things to make the work of telegraphy less irksome. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The navy was the only escort and protection for these steamers, all of which in getting below had to run about fourteen miles of batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The instruments in the handsome new offices were fastened in their proper places, and operators were strictly forbidden to remove them, or to use the batteries except on regular work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Strong protection to the heavy guns in the water batteries had been obtained by cutting away places for them in the bluff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Continuing the charge, they also carried batteries Eleven and Twelve to our left, which they turned toward City Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Arc lamps were operated from its circuits, and one of the first sets of practicable storage batteries was used experimentally at the station. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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