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C battery

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noun

Electronics.

  1. an electric battery for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.

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It was about the size of a C battery.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

In the meantime Plumer's force upon the north had been strengthened by the addition of C battery of four 12-pounder guns of the Canadian Artillery under Major Eudon and a body of Queenslanders.

From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The battery compound known as the C and C battery compound, sold in tin cans at most electric stores, is very convenient.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 by Various

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