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Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc..

Bunsen''s Battery :: Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burne.

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..

Captain :: Captain (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service..

Water Battery :: Water battery () A battery nearly on a level with the water.

Zincous :: Zincous (a.) Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.

Cell :: Cell (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery..

Rheophore :: Rheophore (n.) One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.

Catelectrode :: Catelectrode (n.) The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.

Open :: Open (v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy..

Bunsen''s Burner :: Bunsen's burner () See under Battery, and Burner..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.

Piece :: Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece..

Water Battery :: Water battery () A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is 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..

Anelectrode :: Anelectrode (n.) The positive pole of a voltaic battery.

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

Couple :: Couple (a.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

Voltaplast :: Voltaplast (n.) A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn..

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