Definition of battery

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Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.

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Depolarizer :: Depolarizer (n.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery..
Cell :: Cell (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals..
Anelectrode :: Anelectrode (n.) The positive pole of a voltaic battery.
Water Battery :: Water battery () A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
Piece :: Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece..
Pulsation :: Pulsation (n.) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
Mask :: Mask (n.) A screen for a battery.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together.
Hydro-electric :: Hydro-electric (a.) Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used..
Electro-tint :: Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing..
Discharger :: Discharger (n.) One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod..
Frigate :: Frigate (n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely incre
Rheophore :: Rheophore (n.) One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
Calorimotor :: Calorimotor (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects..
Zincous :: Zincous (a.) Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.
Short-circuit :: Short-circuit (v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance..
Supportable :: Support (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery..
Chemiglyphic :: Chemiglyphic (a.) Engraved by a voltaic battery.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
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