battery : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube
  

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• noun an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
  battery.
  

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• noun a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle; usually a 12-volt battery of six cells; the heart of the car's electrical system
  automobile battery.
  

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• noun battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube
  

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• . See Barbette.

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• a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret.

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• noun dilute sulfuric acid used in storage batteries
  electrolyte acid.
  

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• noun a device for charging or recharging batteries
  charger.
  

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• one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work.

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• one that plays obliquely.

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• a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load.

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• a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery.

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• noun street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
  Elvis; Zen; dose; back breaker; window pane; pane; Lucy in the sky with diamonds; acid; loony toons; dot; superman.
  

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• adjective satellite powered by one or more electric batteries
  
  • a battery-powered radio

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Bun"sen's bat"ter*y, Bun"sen's burn`er (Also<

• Bunsen's battery
• Bunsen's burner

)

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1. See under Battery, and Burner.

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• noun battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube
  

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• noun a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle; usually a 12-volt battery of six cells; the heart of the car's electrical system
  automobile battery.
  

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• noun a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells
  

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• (Physics), a voltaic battery the elements of which are buried in the earth to be acted on by its moisture.

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• noun a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
  battery.
  

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• . See Battery.

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• (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; distinguished from movable battery.

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• noun a small dry battery containing dry cells; used to power flashlights
  

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• (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place.

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• (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight.

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• noun battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel
  galvanic battery.
  

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• (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; now usually called voltaic battery. See Battery.

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• (Elec.), a form of voltaic battery, in which gases, especially hydrogen and oxygen, are the active agents.

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• (Elec.), a voltaic battery consisting of zinc and carbon in sulphuric acid, or other exciting liquid.

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• See Battery, n., 4.

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• projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing.

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• noun a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte; each cell generates about 2 volts
  lead-acid accumulator.
  

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• (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for the line.

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• a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with great power.

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• (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be seen by an enemy until it opens fire. H. L. Scott.
• a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy.

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• noun a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide; each cell gives about 1.2 volts
  nickel-iron accumulator.
  

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• withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.

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• (Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.

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• noun a stamp mill for stamping quartz
  quartz mill.
  

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• (Elec.), the local battery which is brought into use by the action of the relay magnet, or relay.

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• . (Elec.) See under Battery, n., 4.

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• noun electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cells
  solar array; solar panel.
  

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• noun a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
  battery.
  

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• noun a voltaic battery that stores electric charge
  accumulator.
  

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• . (Physics) See the Note under Battery.

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• noun a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material
  grid.
  

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• noun battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel
  galvanic battery.
  

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• an apparatus variously constructed, consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by which a current of electricity is generated whenever the two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a conductor; a galvanic battery. See Battery, 4. (b), and Note.

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Wa"ter bat"ter*y

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1. (Elec.) A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
2. (Mil.) A battery nearly on a level with the water.

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