Definition of Battery

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Battery

The act of battering or beating.

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.

Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.

Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.

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.

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.

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.

A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.

The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

The pitcher and catcher together.

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Battery Quotations

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.
Marc Jacobs

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
Tommy Cooper

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
Bill Watterson

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.
Robert Rauschenberg

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
Ernie Pyle

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
Donald Norman

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.
Jam Master Jay

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
Henry Villard

Battery Translations

battery in Afrikaans is battery
battery in Danish is batteri, akkumulator
battery in Dutch is accu, accumulator
battery in French is accumulateur, batterie
battery in German is Batterie, Stromversorgung
battery in Italian is accumulatore, batteria
battery in Norwegian is akkumulator, batteri
battery in Portuguese is bateria
battery in Swedish is batteri

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