A Battery

Definition: A Battery

A Battery

Noun

1. Battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Attack

Beset, besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls.

Crosswords: A Battery

With wire, a battery, and jumper cables. (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie)

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19th Century lithograph, purporting to represent CSS Florida (1862-1864). This image bears no real resemblance to that ship: Florida had two smokestacks, not one as shown here; a battery that included pivot guns, not an exclusively broadside armament; and a bark rig, not that of a ship; among other differences from the vessel seen in this print. Credit: NAVY.

Seaman 1st Class Billy Ikard (left) and Seaman 1st Class Barbara A. Patterson move a battery cart into position next to a Naval Air Transport Service R5D-1 (Bureau # 39170), circa mid-1945. Both WAVES are assigned to Naval Air Transport Squadron Four. Credit: NAVY.

Russian section, a battery in action. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shipping a battery at Alexandria. Credit: Library of Congress.

Attack of the Louisiana Tigers on a battery of the 11th Corps / A.R. Waud. Credit: Library of Congress.

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Firing a battery of twenty five Livens projectors (explosion). Credit: Library of Congress.

Bethesda, Maryland. A Battery Park Market truck on the door of which is displayed a United States Truck Conservation Corps pledge. Credit: Library of Congress.

A battery of 1,000 and 2,000 pound furnaces roaring threats to the Axis. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

These devices include a water-sensitive pad worn in pajamas, a wire connecting to a battery driven control, and an alarm that sounds when moisture is first detected. (references)

Business

A fuel cell also shares many of the characteristics of a battery. (references)

The Hsiung-feng III supersonic anti-ship missile developed by CSIST has already passed a battery of tests and mass production of the missile is expected to begin by the end of 2001. CSIST also has the ability to design and build anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) system. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

In the latter half of the 1980s, Sweden dismantled a battery of foreign exchange controls, and no capital or exchange controls remain. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Sweden dismantled a battery of foreign exchange controls in the latter half of the 1980s. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

The U.S. Export Import Bank (ExIm) has provided a total of over $1 billion in credits for U.S. exports to Uzbekistan of aircraft and agricultural equipment, as well as the U.S. components of a battery factory, refinery, gas compressor station, and other major projects. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

French

une série de fours � coke constitue une batterie,plusieurs batteries constituent une cokerie (a series of coke ovens constitutes a battery, several batteries constitute a coking plant). (various references)

German

eine Koksofenbatterie besteht aus einer Reihe von Koksoefen,eine Kokerei aus mehreren Koksofenbatterien (a series of coke ovens constitutes a battery, several batteries constitute a coking plant). (various references)

Greek 

μια σειρά κλιβάνων οπτανθρακοποίησης αποτελεί μια συστοιχία,πολλές συστοιχίες συγκροτούν ένα οπτανθρακοποιείο (a series of coke ovens constitutes a battery, several batteries constitute a coking plant). (various references)

Italian

una serie di forni a coke costituisce una batteria;più batterie costituiscono una cokeria (a series of coke ovens constitutes a battery, several batteries constitute a coking plant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�列 (barrage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほうれつ (aromatic, barrage, battery, heroic deed, outstanding achievement). (various references)

Pig Latin

aay atterybay.(various references)

Portuguese

uma série de fornos de coque formam uma bateria;várias baterias constituem uma coquearia (a series of coke ovens constitutes a battery, several batteries constitute a coking plant). (various references)

Spanish

una serie de hornos de coque constituye una bateria;varias baterias constituyen una coqueria (a series of coke ovens constitutes a battery, several batteries constitute a coking plant). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: battery, tabaret.

-2 letters: abater, baryta, baryte, batter, betray, bratty, treaty, yatter.

-3 letters: abate, attar, barye, batty, betta, rabat, ratty, reata, taber, tarty, tatar, tater, teary, tetra, treat, yerba.

-4 letters: abet, abye, aery, area, arty, bare, bate, batt, bear, beat, beta, brae, brat, bray, byre, byte, eyra, rate, raya, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, tray.

+4 letters: abstractedly, alterability, traceability, treatability.

+5 letters: bathymetrical, breathability, marketability, repeatability.