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pila — 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.
  • flashlight noun A small portable battery-powered light held in the hand.
  • font noun A set of letters and characters sharing one consistent design, style, and weight, used in printing or on a screen.
  • heap noun A pile of things gathered or thrown together.
  • pile noun A number of things heaped or stacked on top of each other.
  • stack noun A pile of things placed neatly one on top of another.

Senses

pila 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.
  • flashlight (Canada, US, Philippines) A battery-powered hand-held light source.
  • font (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
  • heap A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  • pile A mass formed in layers.
  • pile (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
  • 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.

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