car battery

1. 1.

   a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle; usually a 12-volt battery of six cells; the heart of the car's electrical system

   Synonymsautomobile battery

   Broaderlead-acid battery

   Part ofelectrical system

Questions about car battery

What does car battery mean?

car battery means "a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle; usually a 12-volt battery of six cells; the heart of the car's electrical system".

What is another word for car battery?

Close synonyms include automobile battery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is car battery a common word?

car battery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.