Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating. |
Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. |
Battery (v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense. |
Battery (v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field. |
Battery (v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. |
Battery (v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. |
Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity. |
Battery (v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position |
Battery (v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. |
Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down. |
Battery (v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together. |
Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burner |
Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden |
Discharge (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded |
Discharge (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment |
Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement |
Discharge (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden |
Discharge (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile |
Discharge (v. t.) To set aside |
Discharge (v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt |
Discharge (v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment |
Discharge (v. t.) To give forth |
Discharge (v. t.) To prohibit |
Discharge (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden |
Discharge (v. t.) The act of discharging |
Discharge (v. t.) Firing off |
Discharge (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc. |
Discharge (v. t.) Legal release from confinement |
Discharge (v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like |
Discharge (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. |
Discharge (v. t.) A flowing or issuing out |
Indicator (n.) One who, or that which, shows or points out |
Indicator (n.) A pressure gauge |
Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below). |
Indicator (n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc. |
Indicator (n.) The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer. |
Indicator (n.) Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey. |
Indicator (n.) That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis. |
Water battery () A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. |
Water battery () A battery nearly on a level with the water. |
discharge firing firing off | the act of discharging a gun |
release waiver discharge | a formal written statement of relinquishment |
dismissal dismission discharge firing liberation release sack sacking | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) |
honorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record |
dishonorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder) |
battery assault and battery | an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact |
barrage barrage fire battery bombardment shelling | 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 |
discharge venting | the act of venting |
A battery | the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube |
c acid back breaker battery-acid dose dot Elvis loony toons Lucy in the sky with diamonds pane superman window pane Zen | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
artificial horizon gyro horizon flight indicator | a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope, it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot |
battery electric battery | a device that produces electricity, may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series |
battery stamp battery | a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores |
B battery | battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube |
car battery automobile battery | a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle, usually a -volt battery of six cells, the heart of the car's electrical system |
C battery | battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube |
charger battery charger | a device for charging or recharging batteries |
discharge lamp | a lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gas |
discharge pipe | a pipe through which fluids can be discharged |
dry battery | a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells |
electric-discharge lamp gas-discharge lamp | an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube |
flashlight battery | a small dry battery containing dry cells, used to power flashlights |
fuel gauge fuel indicator | an indicator of the amount of fuel remaining in a vehicle |
gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
grid storage-battery grid | a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material |
indicator | a device for showing the operating condition of some system |
lead-acid battery lead-acid accumulator | a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte, each cell generates about volts |
nickel-iron battery nickel-iron accumulator | a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide, each cell gives about . volts |
pilot light pilot lamp indicator lamp | indicator consisting of a light to indicate whether power is on or a motor is in operation |
quartz battery quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
solar array solar battery solar panel | electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cells |
speedometer speed indicator | a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed |
storage battery accumulator | a voltaic battery that stores electric charge |
voltaic battery galvanic battery | battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel |
theory of indicators Ostwald's theory of indicators | (chemistry) the theory that all indicators are either weak acids or weak bases in which the color of the ionized form is different from the color before dissociation |
index index number indicant indicator | a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts, can reveal relative changes as a function of time |
leading indicator | one of indicators for different sections of the economy, used by the Department of Commerce to predict economic trends in the near future |
indicator | a signal for attracting attention |
blinker turn signal turn indicator trafficator | a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn |
discharge | the sudden giving off of energy |
electrical discharge | a discharge of electricity |
discharge outpouring run | the pouring forth of a fluid |
battery | a collection of related things intended for use together, took a battery of achievement tests |
battery | a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher |
battery | group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place |
brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
corona discharge corona corposant St. Elmo's fire Saint Elmo's fire Saint Elmo's light Saint Ulmo's fire Saint Ulmo's light electric glow | an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere |
discharge spark arc electric arc electric discharge | electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field |
discharge emission expelling | any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body, the discharge of pus |
absorption indicator | an indicator used in reactions that involve precipitation |