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say it: BAT-ur-ee
battery is a noun meaning "group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
a collection of related things intended for use together
“took a battery of achievement tests”
a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
“they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops”
“the shelling went on for hours without pausing”
an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for battery come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.