batteries 音标拼音: [b'ætɚiz]
n . 电池
电池
Battery \
Bat "
ter *
y \,
n .;
pl . {
Batteries }. [
F .
batterie ,
fr .
battre .
See {
Batter },
v .
t .]
1 .
The act of battering or beating .
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2 . (
Law )
The unlawful beating of another .
It includes every willful ,
angry and violent ,
or negligent touching of another '
s person or clothes ,
or anything attached to his person or held by him .
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3 . (
Mil .)
(
a )
Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted ,
for attack or defense .
(
b )
Two or more pieces of artillery in the field .
(
c )
A company or division of artillery ,
including the gunners ,
guns ,
horses ,
and all equipments .
In the United States ,
a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns .
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{
Barbette battery }.
See {
Barbette }.
{
Battery d '
enfilade },
or {
Enfilading battery },
one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work .
{
Battery en ['
e ]
charpe },
one that plays obliquely .
{
Battery gun },
a gun capable of firing a number of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load .
{
Battery wagon },
a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages ,
etc .,
of the battery .
{
In battery },
projecting ,
as a gun ,
into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing .
{
Masked battery },
a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy .
{
Out of battery },
or {
From battery },
withdrawn ,
as a gun ,
to a position for loading .
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4 . (
Elec .)
(
a )
A number of coated jars (
Leyden jars )
so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously .
(
b )
An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity .
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Note :
In the {
trough battery },
copper and zinc plates ,
connected in pairs ,
divide the trough into cells ,
which are filled with an acid or oxidizing liquid ;
the effect is exhibited when wires connected with the two end -
plates are brought together .
In {
Daniell '
s battery },
the metals are zinc and copper ,
the former in dilute sulphuric acid ,
or a solution of sulphate of zinc ,
the latter in a saturated solution of sulphate of copper .
A modification of this is the common {
gravity battery },
so called from the automatic action of the two fluids ,
which are separated by their specific gravities .
In {
Grove '
s battery },
platinum is the metal used with zinc ;
two fluids are used ,
one of them in a porous cell surrounded by the other .
In {
Bunsen '
s }
or the {
carbon battery },
the carbon of gas coke is substituted for the platinum of Grove '
s .
In {
Leclanch ['
e ]'
s battery },
the elements are zinc in a solution of ammonium chloride ,
and gas carbon surrounded with manganese dioxide in a porous cell .
A {
secondary battery }
is a battery which usually has the two plates of the same kind ,
generally of lead ,
in dilute sulphuric acid ,
and which ,
when traversed by an electric current ,
becomes charged ,
and is then capable of giving a current of itself for a time ,
owing to chemical changes produced by the charging current .
A {
storage battery }
is a kind of secondary battery used for accumulating and storing the energy of electrical charges or currents ,
usually by means of chemical work done by them ;
an accumulator .
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5 .
A number of similar machines or devices in position ;
an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts ;
as ,
a battery of boilers ,
of retorts ,
condensers ,
etc .
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6 . (
Metallurgy )
A series of stamps operated by one motive power ,
for crushing ores containing the precious metals .
--
Knight .
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7 .
The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down .
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8 . (
Baseball )
The pitcher and catcher together .
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