Battery

What “Battery” means

Noun

1. A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
2. A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
3. The energy stored in such a device.
4. The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
5. A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.

Where the word comes from

Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y. The electrical sense was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.

Business name ideas with “Battery”

Industries where “Battery” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Primary Battery Manufacturing
• Storage Battery Manufacturing