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   Bat·ter·y

   /ˈbadərē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power: "battery power" Similar cellaccumulatorpower unit
   • 2. a fortified emplacement for heavy guns: "anti-aircraft missile batteries"
   • ▪ an artillery subunit of guns, men, and vehicles. Similar gun emplacementartillery unitartillerycannonryordnanceheavy weaponsheavy weaponrygunscannons
   • 3. a set of units of equipment, typically when connected together: "a battery of equipment to monitor blood pressure" Similar arraysetbankgrouprowlinelineupraftcollectionassortment
   • ▪ an extensive series, sequence, or range of things: "children given a battery of tests" Similar seriessequencerangesetcyclechainstringprogressionsuccession
   • 4. the crime or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive: "any act which puts a person in immediate and reasonable fear of battery" Similar violenceassaultmuggingbeatingstrikingthumpingthrashingbashinggrievous bodily harmactual bodily harmGBHABH
   • 5. the pitcher and the catcher in a game, considered as a unit.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French baterie, from battre ‘to strike’, from Latin battuere. The original sense was ‘metal articles wrought by hammering’, later ‘a number of pieces of artillery used together’, whence ‘a number of Leyden jars connected up so as to discharge simultaneously’ (mid 18th century), giving rise to battery (sense 1).

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