lead-acid battery

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   a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte; each cell generates about 2 volts

   Synonymslead-acid accumulator

   Broaderstorage battery

   Narrowercar battery

Questions about lead-acid battery

What does lead-acid battery mean?

lead-acid battery means "a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte; each cell generates about 2 volts".

What is another word for lead-acid battery?

Close synonyms include lead-acid accumulator. 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 lead-acid battery a common word?

lead-acid 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.