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batteria — 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.
  • drum noun A percussion instrument with a tight skin stretched over a hollow body, played by striking.
  • heat noun The energy or sensation of high temperature; warmth.
  • pile noun A number of things heaped or stacked on top of each other.

Senses

batteria 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.
  • battery (military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
  • drum (percussion instrument) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
  • drum kit A collection of drums and other percussion instruments designed to be played together.
  • heat (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
  • pile A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
  • power supply A source of power such as the mains or a generator.

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.

drum — full definition

  1. noun A percussion instrument with a tight skin stretched over a hollow body, played by striking.
  2. noun A cylindrical container, especially one used to store or transport liquid.
  3. verb To strike or tap rhythmically, as if playing a drum.

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