Battery | Mean of battery in English Dictionary

/ˈbætəri/

• Noun
• a device that is placed inside a machine (such as a clock, toy, or car) to supply it with electricity
1. I bought new batteries for the flashlights.
2. a car battery
3. battery-powered computers
4. a dead battery = (Brit) a flat battery [=a battery that has no more electricity]
• a usually large group of similar people, things, or ideas that work together, are used together, etc.
1. a battery of tests
2. The operation was performed by a battery of doctors.
• a group of two or more big guns used by the military
1. an artillery battery

• the crime of hitting or touching someone in a way that is meant to cause harm or injury
1. He was found guilty of battery.
• the pitcher and catcher on a particular team
• relating to or produced by a type of farming in which animals (such as chickens) are kept in small cages
1. a battery farm
2. battery chickens versus free-range chickens