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/ɪlˈɛktrɪk bˈætəri/ Listen

Electric battery

noun

A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series. Synonym: battery.

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"Electric battery" Quotes from Famous Books

... itself upon the spears of trial. Now the trial had come, and that which was in him as deep as being, the habit of youth, the mother-fibre and predisposition, responded to the draught he had drunk then. As a body freed from the quivering, unrelenting grasp of an electric battery subsides into a cool quiet, so, through his veins seemed to pass an ether which stilled the tumult, the dark desire to drink the potion in his hand, and escape into that irresponsible, artificial world, where he had before loosened his ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... time considered that he had discovered the process, which consisted in his case of submitting a piece of charcoal to the action of an electric battery, having in his mind the similar process of electrolysis, by which water is divided up into the two gases, hydrogen and oxygen. He obtained a microscopic deposit on the poles of the battery, which he pronounced to ...

— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin

Words linked to "Electric battery" : C battery, voltaic battery, pole, terminal, galvanic battery, B battery, galvanic pile, A battery, electrical device, pile, electrode, voltaic pile