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Definition of "battery" []

  • The act of beating or pounding. (noun)
  • Law The unlawful and unwanted touching or striking of one person by another, with the intention of bringing about a harmful or offensive contact. (noun)
  • An emplacement for one or more pieces of artillery. (noun)
  • A set of guns or other heavy artillery, as on a warship. (noun)
  • An army artillery unit, corresponding to a company in the infantry. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "battery" in a sentence
  • "In the arrangement of Figs. 11 and 12 the battery has no metallic connection with the line, so that it is called a _local battery_."
  • "If BNP IS met i will throw in a d60 battery grip+ one 3rd party battery+ Lowre 180 ex bag"
  • "[U3] der engineer Don Jaime, employed in continuing the communication to the gallows battery, and fix hundred on that battery, and ftrengthening the ground of the mortar battery*"