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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y. The electrical sense was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.

derived from battuō
derived from baterie
borrowed from batterie

Definitions

1
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected…
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- alkaline battery
- sodium-ion battery
- lead-acid battery
2
The energy stored in such a device.
- Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call.
- A: How much battery do you have left? B: Only 63%.
3
The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from…
The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
- Holonym: assault and battery
- He offered three types of battery for which Mr. Trump might be liable under New York law: rape, sexual abuse and forcible touching.
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1. 4
  A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
  - Outside the ancient fort, you can still see worn areas in the stone where the batteries were once placed.
2. 5
  An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
  - such forts being so contrived as to have two or three batteries, one higher than the other, furnished with many cannon.
  - His grand battery was as badly provided with cannon as his little battery, for not a single gun was mounted on either.
3. 6
  An array of similar things.
  - Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
4. 7
  A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
  - ‘Do you know how battery chickens live?’
5. The catcher and the pitcher together
6. Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
7. A marching percussion ensemble
  A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
8. 11
  The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
  - in battery
  - out of battery
  - In this circumstance, you will have to rack the slide to get back in battery.
9. Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.
10. A park in Manhattan, New York City.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at battery. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at battery. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at battery

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

Etymology

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Vish — recursive loop