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A battery

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Noun1.A batteryA battery - the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube
electric battery, battery - a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series


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It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery, but there seemed nothing incon- gruous about the getting up such an expensive thunder- storm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.
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A battery of artillery followed, the cannoneers riding with folded arms on limber and caisson.
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to death, the parliament was dissolved with a battery of artillery,
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