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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.
  • 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.
  • queue noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
  • stack noun A pile of things placed neatly one on top of another.
  • washbasin noun A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face.

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.
  • 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 (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.
  • queue (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. [from 20th c.]
  • stack A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
  • 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.

font — full definition

  1. noun A set of letters and characters sharing one consistent design, style, and weight, used in printing or on a screen.
  2. noun A basin in a church that holds water used for baptism.
  3. noun A source or origin of something, especially knowledge (literary).

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