electric battery

Noun
  1. A device that produces electricity;
    May have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series (synset 102813606)
    is a type of: electrical device - a device that produces or is powered by electricity
    subtypes:
    • a battery - the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube
    • b battery - battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube
    • c battery - battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube
    • galvanic battery, voltaic battery - battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel
    • galvanic pile, pile, voltaic pile - battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
    has:
    • electrode - a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit
    • pole, terminal - a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
    same as: battery

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