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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)
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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*"
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