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电池 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • battery noun A device that stores and supplies electrical power, made of one or more cells.
  • flat adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
  • heap noun A pile of things gathered or thrown together.
  • pile noun A number of things heaped or stacked on top of each other.
  • sharp adj Having a fine edge or point that can cut or pierce easily.
  • stack noun A pile of things placed neatly one on top of another.

Senses

电池 is used for these senses in English:

  • battery (electrical, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
  • flat (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
  • heap (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  • on the button (idiomatic) Exactly, precisely.
  • pile (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
  • sharp (of times of day, notcomp) Exactly.
  • stack (computing, often with "the") A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

battery — full definition

  1. noun A device that stores and supplies electrical power, made of one or more cells.
  2. noun A legal term for unlawfully touching or striking another person.
  3. noun A group of similar things, especially artillery guns, arranged or used together.

flat — full definition

  1. adj Level and even, with no slope, bumps, or curves.
  2. adj Unchanging or without variation, especially in sales, tone, or energy.
  3. adj Of a tyre, deflated, usually because of a puncture.
  4. adj Of a drink, having lost its fizz.
  5. adj In music, lower in pitch than the correct note, or (of a written note) lowered by a semitone.

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