nickel-iron battery

1. 1.

   a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide; each cell gives about 1.2 volts

   Synonymsnickel-iron accumulator

   Broaderstorage battery

Questions about nickel-iron battery

What does nickel-iron battery mean?

nickel-iron battery means "a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide; each cell gives about 1.2 volts".

What is another word for nickel-iron battery?

Close synonyms include nickel-iron 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 nickel-iron battery a common word?

nickel-iron 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.