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ELECTRIC BATTERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
Synonyms:
battery; electric battery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("electric battery" is a kind of...):
electrical device (a device that produces or is powered by electricity)
Meronyms (parts of "electric battery"):
electrode (a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit)
pole; terminal (a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electric battery"):
A battery (the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube)
B battery (battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube)
C battery (battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube)
galvanic battery; voltaic battery (battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel)
galvanic pile; pile; voltaic pile (battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta)
