battery
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈbætəri/
- Specialized
:
batería (unidad de artillería)
- De Lance y, move that battery down towards Hougoumont.
- artillery battery
- missile battery
- antimissile battery
Examples
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- Main battery, cease fire!
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I was a captain in Battery D in World War I, and, well, that was the center of the whole war effort for me.
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Well, men, whatever it was, our main battery stopped it.
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- Battery A in position zero.
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Four of the guns in the battery made good their escape.
Fiction book (1992) -
During the war, additional batteries arrived to be deployed in Israel.
Academic text (1993) -
- Captain Rousseau, battery commander, sir.
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The UAE requested nine Patriot batteries valued at $9 billion as early as 2007.
Academic text (2015) -
Five-tubed Nebelwerfer batteries blasted high explosive rockets 8,500 yards across the border.
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The US Army deployed a new battery of artillery along the border for defense.
Synonyms
184
6.9
Large guns on land that fire shells over long distances
1
6.3
A military group that uses large guns to fire at enemy targets
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.9
A rechargeable device with lead plates and weak sulphuric acid used in cars and for backup power
- NSFW
1
9.9
A slang name for LSD, a drug that makes people see or hear things that are not real
- Specialized
1
3.4
A large pack that stores electricity to power an electric car and control how far it can go
- Specialized
A small source of electricity used in devices like radios or flashlights that has no liquid
- Specialized
A large rechargeable device that stores electric energy to drive an electric or hybrid car and power its systems
- Specialized
A rechargeable device that stores electric energy to start a car and run its lights and radio
- Archaic
A power source used in old radios to give positive voltage to a vacuum tube plate
- Specialized
A battery you can charge again made from nickel and iron that lasts a long time
- Archaic
A machine with heavy metal hammers that crushes quartz rock to get gold and other minerals
- Specialized
A device with many small panels that changes sunlight into electricity
- Specialized
A metal plate with holes that conducts electricity and holds the battery material
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Etymology
The word battery for a group of guns comes from the old word batter 'to beat' and was used for several cannons that fired together, so a military battery is a group of guns operated as one unit.