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Definition of A battery
1. Noun. The battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube.
Definition of A battery
1. Noun. (context dated electronics) A battery used to heat the filament or cathode heaters of electron tubes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of A Battery
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Literary usage of A battery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... which movement was, in a measure, owing to a battery firing over our line from
the rear, and which was connected with Forrest's command. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"Now, a battery made of eleven plates of lead of this size gives you ... A battery
was first set up; that is to say, a prolonged charging of the whole body, ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"The enemy now opened a battery upon the bridge, one of its shells wounding
Lieutenant Hastings, of the Seventeenth Tennessee, which regiment was returning ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"In England some of the judges have held that a present actual ability to inflict
a battery is necessary to render an assault criminal, though an apparent ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The one tube a is connected to the "positive pole" of a battery whose "negative
pole" is connected to the earth. The second tube 6 is connected ..."
6. Handbook of the Law of Torts by Heman Gerald Chapin (1917)
"28 A battery is a consummated assault. Though the force be but slight, ...
Thus, snatching a paper from another's hands is a battery;8* so is striking a ..."
7. Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering by Alexander Gray (1917)
"Power and Energy of a Battery—The active materials in a battery contain a definite
quantity of chemical energy which may be transformed into electrical ..."
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