= battery, n. 10.

A series of plates arranged so as to produce a potential difference or voltage; spec. one consisting of alternate plates of two dissimilar metals…

An apparatus consisting of a series of cells, each containing the essentials for producing voltaic electricity, connected together. Also used of any…

In spec. uses. An oblong box with divisions serving as the cells of a voltaic battery; also short for trough battery n. at compounds 2.

Of apparatus: Used in producing electricity by chemical action after the method discovered by Volta; esp. voltaic battery (battery, n. 10), voltaic…

Of apparatus: Used in producing electricity by chemical action after the method discovered by Volta; esp. voltaic battery (battery, n. 10), voltaic…

A kind of voltaic pile.

a voltaic battery consisting of a number of cells in a trough (sense 2b).

a battery in which each cell consists of two platinum electrodes partially submerged in an electrolyte and surrounded with one of two different…

(see quots.).

Used attributively to denote appliances invented by Bunsen. a voltaic battery in which the elements are carbon and zinc, and in which nitric and…

= gravity battery n. at gravity, n. compounds 2.

a galvanic battery with a perforated container for holding crystals by which the solution was kept saturated.

a kind of galvanic battery in which the electrolyte flows between the plates so that a constant level of concentration can be maintained.