battery
substantivocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈbæt.(ə)ɹi//
- Reino Unido//ˈbæt͡ʃɹi//
- Estados Unidos//ˈbæt.əɹi//
- Estados Unidos/[ˈbæɾə.ɹi]/
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
substantivo
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A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
alkaline battery
sodium-ion battery
lead-acid battery
His flashlight takes two AA batteries.
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A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells. Such a device that has multiple cells.
Her phone needs a new battery because its present battery no longer holds a charge well.
[For his experiments with electricity,] Benjamin Franklin utilized Leyden jars and referred to several jars hooked together as a battery (after a "battery" of cannon).
[The voltage of a single cell is] too low for most applications [... so] a series of cells will be used to obtain the desired voltage – a "battery" of cells, in the strictest sense of the term.
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informalThe energy stored in such a device.
Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call.
A: How much battery do you have left? B: Only 63%.
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The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
Holonym: assault and battery
[…] 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.
He offered three types of battery for which Mr. Trump might be liable under New York law: rape, sexual abuse and forcible touching.
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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.
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A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns. 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.
the marines had six 8-inch howitzers, eight 4.2-inch mortars, and three 105-mm howitzer batteries, each with six pieces.
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arcaicoAn 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".
such forts being so contrived as to have two or three batteries, one higher than the other, furnished with many cannon.
His grand battery was as badly provided with cannon as his little battery, for not a single gun was mounted on either.
On this wharf [Tower Bridge wharf] there is a long and beautiful platform, on which are planted 61 pieces of cannon [...] Devil's Battery, where is also a platform, on which are mounted seven pieces of cannon, although on the battery itself there are only five.
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An array of similar things.
Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
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A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
‘Do you know how battery chickens live?’
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The catcher and the pitcher together
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Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
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A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
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A group of barracuda.
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The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
in battery
out of battery
In this circumstance, you will have to rack the slide to get back in battery.
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arcaicoApparatus for preparing or serving meals.
Etimologia
Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y. The electrical sense was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.
Formas
- plural
- batteries
battery · A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
Battery · A park in Manhattan, New York City.batting · Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the…battle · A contest, a struggle.