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Battery bat·ter·y

Spelling: [bat-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈbæt ə ri/

Battery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in Battery (abertty).

Definitions for Battery

noun

1. Electricity. Also called galvanic battery, voltaic battery. a combination of two or more cell electrically connected to work together to produce electric energy. cell1 (def 7a).
2. any large group or series of related things:
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. Baseball. 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. Psychology. a series of tests yielding a single total score, used for measuring aptitude, intelligence, personality, etc.
8. the act of beating or battering.
9. Law. an unlawful attack upon another person by beating or wounding, or by touching in an offensive manner.
10. an instrument used in battering.
11. Also, batterie. Music. the instruments comprising the percussion section of an orchestra.
12. any imposing group of persons or things acting or directed in unison:
13. The, a park at the S end of Manhattan, in New York City.

Origin of Battery

1525-35; Middle French batterie, equivalent to batt(re) to beat (see bate²) + -erie -ery

Examples for Battery

Karajah was charged with two felony counts of assault and battery.

Thus the battery was left with no other escort than thirty sappers.

It was more like abduction complicated with assault and battery.

The gadget goes for $75 and can be reused nearly 40 times before the battery needs to be recharged.

This battery was from his native city, and in it he had many friends.

General Grant issued a general order that “every battery bearing upon the enemy” fire in salute.

And for most of its existence, Tesla has relied on a single supplier for the battery cells: Panasonic.

To indicate the effect, he included a galvanometer in the circuit of the battery and the button.

The battery, about thirty sappers and half the 35th Sikhs, were returning to camp.

They peered out into the gloom from battery Park and could not make out her form.