Battery

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.

   “alkaline battery”

2. isim Such a device that has multiple cells.

   “Her phone needs a new battery because its present battery no longer holds a charge well.”

3. isim The energy stored in such a device.

   “Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call.”

4. isim The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.

   “Holonym: assault and battery”

5. isim A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.

   “Outside the ancient fort, you can still see worn areas in the stone where the batteries were once placed.”

6. isim Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.

   “They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.”

7. isim An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.

   “such forts being so contrived as to have two or three batteries, one higher than the other, furnished with many cannon.”

8. isim An array of similar things.

   “Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.”

9. isim A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.

   “‘Do you know how battery chickens live?’”

10. isim The catcher and the pitcher together
11. isim Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
12. isim A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
13. isim The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.

    “in battery”

14. isim Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.
15. özel isim A park in Manhattan, New York City.