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[edit] Etymology
From Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”).
[edit] Pronunciation
battery (plural batteries)
- A device that produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances.
- (law) The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person.
- A coordinated group of artillery.
- An array of similar things.
- Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
device producing electricity
- Arabic: بطارية (ar) (baTTaariyya) f.
- Moroccan Arabic: باتري (bātrī)
- Armenian: մարտկոց (hy) (martkoc’)
- Bulgarian: батерия (bg)
- Catalan: bateria (ca) f.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電池 (cmn), 电池 (cmn) (diànchí)
- Crimean Tatar: batareya
- Czech: baterie (cs) f., baterka (cs) f.
- Danish: batteri (da)
- Dutch: batterij (nl) f.
- Esperanto: pilo (eo)
- Estonian: patarei (et)
- Finnish: paristo (not rechargeable), akku (rechargeable)
- French: pile (fr) f.
- Georgian: (small) ბატარეა (ka) (batarea), (car) აკუმულატორი (ka) (akumulatori)
- German: Batterie (de) f.
- Greek: μπαταρία (el)
- Greenlandic: batteri (kl)
- Hebrew: סוֹלְלָה (he) (solela) f., בטריה (he) (bat'aria) f. (slang)
- Hindi: बैटरी (hi) (baiṭarī), आक्रमण (hi) (ākramaṇ)
- Hungarian: elem (hu), akkumulátor (hu)
- Icelandic: rafhlaða (is) f., batterí (is) n., (rechargeable, usually large, such as in vehicles) rafgeymir (is) m.
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- Italian: pila (it) f.
- Japanese: 電池 (ja) (でんち, denchi), バッテリー (ja) (batterī)
- Korean: 전지 (ko) (jeonji), 배터리 (ko) (baeteori)
- Macedonian: батерија (mk) (batérija) f., акумулатор (mk) (akumulátor) m. (for vehicles)
- Malay: bateri (ms)
- Manx: battree (gv) m., kishtey pooar (gv) m.
- Navajo: (car) chidí bijéí
- Persian: باتری (fa) (bātri)
- Polish: bateria (pl) f.
- Portuguese: pilha (pt) f.,bateria (pt) f.
- Romanian: baterie (ro) f., pilă electrică (ro) f.
- Russian: батарея (ru) (bataréja) f., батарейка (ru) (bataréjka) f. (small), аккумулятор (ru) (akkumuljátor) m. (car)
- Scottish Gaelic: bataraidh (gd) m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба̀те̄рија (sh) f.
- Roman: bàtērija (sh) f.
- Slovene: bateríja (sl) f.
- Spanish: pila (es) f., batería (es) f.
- Swahili: betri (sw)
- Swedish: batteri (sv) n.
- Thai: แบตเตอรี่ (th) (bàetdterrêe)
- Turkish: pil (tr), (car) akü (tr)
- Vietnamese: pin (vi)
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crime of striking another
coordinated group of artillery
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