Battery (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural bat·ter·ies.
  1. a combination of two or more cells electrically connected to work together to produce electric energy.
  2. any large group or series of related things: a battery of questions.
  3. Military.
    • two or more pieces of artillery used for combined action.
    • a tactical unit of artillery, usually consisting of six guns together with the artillerymen, equipment, etc., required to operate them.
    • a parapet or fortification equipped with artillery.
  4. a group or series of similar articles, machines, parts, etc.
  5. the pitcher and catcher considered as a unit.
  6. Navy.
    • (on a warship) a group of guns having the same caliber or used for the same purpose.
    • the whole armament of a warship.
  7. a series of tests yielding a single total score, used for measuring aptitude, intelligence, personality, etc.
  8. the act of beating or battering.
  9. an unlawful attack upon another person by beating or wounding, or by touching in an offensive manner.
  10. an instrument used in battering.
  11. the instruments comprising the percussion section of an orchestra.
  12. any imposing group of persons or things acting or directed in unison: a battery of experts.
noun
  1. a park at the south end of Manhattan, in New York City.
noun plural -teries
    • two or more primary cells connected together, usually in series, to provide a source of electric current
    • short for dry battery
  2. another name for accumulator (def. 1)
  3. a number of similar things occurring together
  4. unlawful beating or wounding of a person or mere touching in a hostile or offensive manner
  5. a fortified structure on which artillery is mounted
  6. a group of guns, missile launchers, searchlights, or torpedo tubes of similar type or size operated as a single entity
  7. a small tactical unit of artillery usually consisting of two or more troops, each of two, three or four guns
  8. mainly British
    • a large group of cages for intensive rearing of poultry
    • (as modifier)
  9. a series of tests
  10. two pieces of the same colour placed so that one can unmask an attack by the other by moving
  11. the percussion section in an orchestra
  12. the pitcher and the catcher considered together
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