Definition of battery

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Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating.

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Pulsation :: Pulsation (n.) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
Depolarize :: Depolarize (v. t.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery..
Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (a.) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative..
Anode :: Anode (n.) The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode..
Open :: Open (v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy..
Voltaplast :: Voltaplast (n.) A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping..
Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc..
Piece :: Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
Accumulator :: Accumulator (n.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) 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..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Water Battery :: Water battery () A battery nearly on a level with the water.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) 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..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
Bunsen''s Burner :: Bunsen's burner () See under Battery, and Burner..
Short-circuit :: Short-circuit (v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
Bunsen''s Battery :: Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burne.
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