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English

Etymology

From , from , from {{term|bauttere||beat|lang=la}}.

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-uk-battery.ogg
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-battery.ogg


Noun

  1. A device that produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances.
  2. The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person.
  3. A coordinated group of artillery.
  4. An array of similar things.
  5. : Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
  6. A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farm|farming their eggs.
  7. The catcher and the pitcher together
  8. Two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal


Derived terms


Translations

  • Arabic:
  • Chinese: 电池 (diànchí)
  • Crimean Tatar: batareya
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|baterija|f}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|baterie|f}}, {{t-|cs|baterka|f}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|batterij|f}}
  • Finnish: paristo (not rechargeable), akku (rechargeable)
  • French: {{t+|fr|pile|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Batterie|f}}
  • Hebrew: סוֹלְלָה (solela) , בטריה (bat'aria) (slang)
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Italian: {{t+|it|pila|f}}
  • Japanese: 電池#Japanese|電池 (でんち, denchi)
  • Korean: 전지 (jeonji); 배터리 (baeteori)
  • Malay: bateri
  • Persian: {{t+|fa|باتری|tr=bātri|sc=fa-Arab|xs=Persian}}
  • Polish: {{t-|pl|bateria|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|батарея|f|tr=bataréja|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|baterija|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|pila|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|batteri|n}}
  • German: {{t-|de|Körperverletzung|f}}
  • Hebrew: תקיפה (tqifa)
  • Japanese: 殴打 (おうだ, ōda)
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|lesiones|f|p}}, {{t-|es|golpes|m|p}}
  • German: {{t-|de|Legebatterie|f}}

See also


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Battery \Bat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Batteries. [F. batterie, fr.
battre. See Batter, v. t.]
1. The act of battering or beating.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet battery
n 1: group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one
place
2: a device that produces electricity; may have several primary
or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series [syn: {electric
battery}]
3: a collection of related things intended for use together;
"took a battery of achievement tests"
4: a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
5: a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
[syn: stamp battery]
6: the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than
hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front
of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours
without pausing" [syn: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment,
shelling]
7: an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
[syn: assault and battery]
Moby Dictionary
KP , Leyden jar , accumulator , amateur athlete , archer , army ,
army group , array , artillery , athlete , atomic battery , ballplayer ,
baseballer , baseman , bastinado , basting , batch , battalion , batter ,
battle group , beating , bells , belting , block , blocking back , body ,
bones , bowman , brigade , buffeting , bunch , bundle , cadre , caning ,
cannon , cannonry , castanets , catcher , celesta , cell , center , chime ,
chimes , clappers , clot , clubbing , clump , cluster , coach ,
coast artillery , cohort , column , combat command , combat team ,
company , competitor , corporal punishment , corps , cowhiding ,
crash cymbal , cricketer , cudgeling , cymbals , defensive lineman ,
detachment , detail , division , drubbing , dry cell ,
electronic battery , end , field army , field artillery , field train ,
file , finger cymbals , flagellation , flailing , flak , flogging ,
flying column , footballer , fuel cell , fustigation , gamelan ,
games-player , gamester , garrison , glockenspiel , gong , guard ,
handbells , heavy field artillery , horsewhipping , idiophone ,
infielder , jock , jumper , kit , kitchen police , lacing , lashing ,
legion , lineman , lot , lyra , maniple , maraca , marimba , metallophone ,
offensive lineman , orchestral bells , ordnance , organization ,
outfield , outfielder , outfit , pack , percussion ,
percussion instrument , percussions , percussive , phalanx ,
pistol-whipping , platoon , player , poloist , posse ,
professional athlete , pugilist , quarterback , racer , rank , rattle ,
rattlebones , rawhiding , regiment , scourging , section , series , set ,
siege artillery , siege engine , sizzler , skater , snappers ,
solar battery , spanking , sport , sportsman , squad , squadron ,
storage battery , storage cell , strapping , stripes , suit , suite ,
swingeing , switching , tackle , tactical unit , tailback , tam-tam ,
task force , thrashing , tintinnabula , tonitruone , toxophilite ,
train , trench artillery , triangle , troop , trouncing , truncheoning ,
tubular bells , unit , vibes , vibraphone , wet cell , whipping , wing ,
wingback , wrestler , xylophone


BATTERY. It is proposed to consider, 1. What is a battery; 2. When a battery, may be justified. 2. - 1. A battery is the unlawful touching the person of another by the aggressor himself, or any other substance put in motion by him. 1 Saund. 29, b. n. 1; Id. 13 & 14, n. 3. It must be either willfully committed, or proceed from want of due care. Str. 596; Hob. 134; Plowd. 19 3 Wend. 391. Hence an injury, be it never so small, done to the person of another, in an angry, spiteful, rude or insolent manner, as by spitting in his face, or any way touching him in anger, or violently jostling him, are batteries in the eye of the law. 1 Hawk. P. C. 263. See 1 Selw. N. P. 33, 4. And any thing attached to the person partakes of its inviolability if, therefore, A strikes a cane in the hands of B, it is a battery. 1 Dall. 1 14 1 Ch. Pr. 37; 1 Penn. R. 380; 1 Hill's R. 46; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 534 . 1 Baldw. R. 600. 3. - 2. A battery may be justified, 1. on the ground of the parental relation 2. in the exercise of an office; 3. under process of a court of justice or other legal tribunal 4. in aid of an authority in law; and lastly, as a necessary means of defence. 4. First. As a salutary mode of correction. For example: a parent may correct his child, a master his apprentice, a schoolmaster his scholar; 24 Edw. IV.; Easter, 17, p. 6 and a superior officer, one under his command. Keilw. pl. 120, p. 136 Bull. N. P. 19 Bee, 161; 1 Bay, 3; 14 John. R. 119 15 Mass. 365; and vide Cowp. 173; 15 Mass. 347. 5. - 2. As a means to preserve the peace; and therefore if the plaintiff assaults or is fighting with another, the defendant may lay hands upon him, and restrain him until his anger is cooled; but he cannot strike him in order to protect 'the party assailed, as he way in self-defence. 2 Roll. Abr. 359, E, pl. 3. 6. - 3. Watchmen may arrest, and detain in prison for examination, persons walking in the streets by might, whom there is reasonable ground to suspect of felony, although there is no proof of a felony having been committed. 3 Taunt. 14. 7. - 4. Any person has a right to arrest another to prevent a felony. 8. - 5. Any one may arrest another upon suspicion of felony, provided a felony has actually been committed and there is reasonable ground for suspecting the person arrested to be the criminal, and that the party making the arrest, himself entertained the suspicion. 9. - 6. Any private individual may arrest a felon. Hale's P. C. 89. 10. - 7. It is lawful for every man to lay hands on another to preserve public decorum; as to turn him out of church, and to prevent him from disturbing the congregation or a funeral ceremony. 1 Mod. 168; and see 1 Lev. 196; 2 Keb. 124. But a request to desist should be first made, unless the urgent necessity of the case dispenses with it. 11. Secondly. A battery may be justified in the exercise of an office. 1. A constable may freshly arrest one who, in, his view, has committed a breach of the peace, and carry him before a magistrate. But if an offence has been committed out of the constable's sight, he cannot arrest, unless it amounts to a felony; 1 Brownl. 198 or a felony is likely to ensue. Cro. Eliz. 375. 12. - 2. A justice of the peace may generally do all acts which a constable has authority to perform hence he may freshly arrest one who, in his view has broken the peace; or he may order a constable at the moment to take him up. Kielw. 41. 13. Thirdly. A battery may be justified under the process of a court of justice, or of a magistrate having competent jurisdiction. See 16 Mass. 450; 13 Mass. 342. 14. Fourthly. A battery may be justified in aid of an authority in law. Every person is empowered to restrain breaches of the peace, by virtue of the authority vested in him by the law. 15. Lastly. A battery may be justified as a necessary means of defence. 1. Against the plaintiffs assaults in the following instances: In defence of himself, his wife, 3 Salk. 46, his child, and his servant. Ow. 150; sed vide 1 Salk. 407. So, likewise, the wife may justify a battery in defending her husband; Ld. Raym. 62; the child its parent; 3 Salk. 46; and the servant his master. In these situations, the party need not wait until a blow has been given, for then he might come too late, and be disabled from warding off a second stroke, or from protecting the person assailed. Care, however, must be taken, that the battery do not exceed the bounds of necessary defence and protection; for it is only permitted as a means to avert an impending evil, which might otherwise overwhelm the party, and not as a punishment or retaliation for the injurious attempt. Str. 953. The degree of force necessary to repel an assault will naturally depend upon, and be proportioned to, the violence of the assailant; but with this limitation any degree is justifiable. Ld. Raym. 177; 2 Salk. 642. 16. - 2. A battery may likewise be justified in the necessary defence of one's property; if the plaintiff is in the act of entering peaceably upon the defendant's land, or having entered, is discovered, not committing violence, a request to depart is necessary in the first instance; 2 Salk. 641; and if the plaintiff refuses, the defendant may then, and not till then, gently lay hands upon the plaintiff to remove him from the close and for this purpose may use, if necessary, any degree of force short of striking the plaintiff, as by thrusting him off. Skinn. 228. If the plaintiff resists, the defendant may oppose force to force. 8 T. R. 78. But if the plaintiff is in the act of forcibly entering upon the land, or having entered, is discovered subverting the soil, cutting down a tree or the like, 2 Salk. 641, a previous request is unnecessary, and the defendant may immediately lay hands upon the plaintiff. 8 T. R. 78. A man may justify a battery in defence of his personal property, without a previous request, if another forcibly attempt to take away such property. 2 Salk. 641. Vide Rudeness; Wantonness.
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