English Dictionary

battery

/ˈbæt.ə.ɹi/

noun

(countable, electronics) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

I need to replace the battery in my car.

意味（1）

(countable, electronics) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

Upon this We made what we call’d an Electrical Battery, consisting of eleven Panes of large Sash Glass, arm’d with thin leaden Plates, pasted on each Side...

Upon this We made what we call’d an Electrical Battery, consisting of eleven Panes of large Sash Glass, arm’d with thin leaden Plates, pasted on each Side... A Turky is to be killed for our Dinners by the Electrical Shock; and roasted by the electrical Jack, before a Fire kindled by the Electrified Bottle; when the Healths of all the Famous Electricians in England, France and Germany, are to be drank in Electrified Bumpers, under the Discharge of Guns from the Electrical Battery.

意味（2）

(law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.

A battery is the actual infliction of unlawful personal violence. … [The defendant] fell to the ground and lashed out with his feet and in doing so kicked the hand of one of the police officers, fracturing a bone. He was charged with assault … although this was a battery.

意味（3）

(countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons.

the marines had six 8-inch howitzers, eight 4.2-inch mortars, and three 105-mm howitzer batteries, each with six pieces.

意味（4）

(historical, archaic) An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.

The construction of advanced batteries mirrored that of those built along the line of circumvallation. … Although Mahan demanded that batteries be constructed to exacting dimensions and revetted with gabions, fascines, and sandbags, at Vicksburg the resources at hand determined what materials soldiers used to build what they termed artillery forts.

意味（5）

An array of similar things.

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

意味（6）

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

‘Do you know how battery chickens live?’

意味（7）

(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together

意味（8）

(chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal

意味（9）

(music) A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.

意味（10）

The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.

意味（11）

(archaic) Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.