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Electric battery   /ɪlˈɛktrɪk bˈætəri/   Listen
Electric battery

noun
1.
A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series.  Synonym: battery.






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"Electric battery" Quotes from Famous Books



... proper place as the root-principle of all secondary causation, Polarity is one of those fundamental facts of which we must never lose sight. The term "Polarity" is adopted from electrical science. In the electric battery it is the connecting together of the opposite poles of zinc and copper that causes a current to flow from one to the other and so provides the energy that rings the bell. If the connection is broken there is no action. When you press the button you make the connection. The same process ...
— The Creative Process in the Individual • Thomas Troward

... Washington alighted, and, ascending the steps, paused on the platform, he was preceded by two gentlemen bearing large white wands, who kept back the eager crowd that pressed on every side. At that moment I stood so near I might have touched his clothes; but I should as soon have thought of touching an electric battery. I was penetrated with deepest awe. Nor was this the feeling of the schoolboy I then was. It pervaded, I believe, every human being that approached Washington; and I have been told that even in his social hours, ...
— Washington's Birthday • Various

... a physiological source. The researches of the latter, it will be remembered, were begun in an observation of the way in which the legs of a dead frog twitched under certain conditions. The voltaic pile was the first electric battery, and, therefore, the parent of the existing marvellous telegraphic and telephonic systems, while less immediately it led to the development of the dynamo and its work in electric lighting and traction. It brought into harmony much fragmentary knowledge which had ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... d'Argeles as if she had experienced the shock of an electric battery, and springing to her feet, with flashing eyes: "You say that my brother's daughter was to marry M. de ...
— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... he had been converted, he had felt a heavenly ray of light flooding his very soul. He said he felt as if an electric battery had come in contact with his entrails. At the same time, he heard a voice clearly saying: 'My son, thy sins are ...
— The Silver Lining - A Guernsey Story • John Roussel



Words linked to "Electric battery" :   C battery, electrode, voltaic pile, battery, electrical device, terminal, galvanic battery, voltaic battery, pile, galvanic pile, pole, B battery, A battery



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