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battery
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battu? (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæt??i/, /?bæt?i/
- Hyphenation: bat?te?ry
Noun
battery (countable and uncountable, plural batteries)
- (countable, electronics) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.
- 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.
- 1749 Benjamin Franklin, letter to Peter Collinson
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.
- 2003, Mike Molan, Modern Criminal Law, section 7.2.2-3:
- 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.
- 2003, Mike Molan, Modern Criminal Law, section 7.2.2-3:
- (countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons.
- (historical, archaic) An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
- An array of similar things.
- Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- (music) A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.
- The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
- (archaic) Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.
Derived terms
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See also
- accumulator
- assault
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