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Definition of Electric battery

1. Noun. A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Electric Battery

Literary usage of Electric battery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering by Alexander Gray (1917)
"This instrument is used as a primary standard. 162. electric battery. — An electric battery is a device for transforming chemical energy into electrical ..."

2. Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering by Alexander Gray (1917)
"electric battery.—An electric battery is a device for transforming chemical energy into electrical energy and consists essentially of two dissimilar plates ..."

3. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"CHAPTER V. OF THE electric battery. — MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL AGENCIES, ... An electric battery consists of a number of Ley den jars so combined, ..."

4. Scribners MonthlyUnite (1876)
"... Echoes in the vin.. i2i electric battery, Secondary vtn. .123 Alcohol in the System vi. .126 Electrical Wonders iv. .634 Alsace, Education in IV. ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1899)
"... OF THERMO-electric battery. BY 0. .1. KEEP. If further proof were needed of the very high thermo electric power of metals in contacts with electrolytes, ..."

6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"The result arrived at was that the source of the thermo-electric current was at the surface of the joint; and that to make a thermo-electric battery for ..."

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