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To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

The price changed for keeping goods in a store. Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.

good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery. Points of support (Arch.), the horizontal area of the solids of a building, walls, piers, and the like, as compared with the open or vacant spaces. -- Right of support (Law), an easement or servitude by which the owner o…

corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.

a small, insulated Leyden jar, placed between the electrical machine and a larger jar or battery, so as to announce, by its repeated discharges, the amount of electricity passed into the larger jar. -- Unit of heat (Physics), a determinate quantity of heat adopted as a unit of measure; a thermal unit (see under Therm…

A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping. G. Francis.

The receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use. -- Wireless telephone, an apparatus or contrivance for wireless telephony. --Wi…

Electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.