C battery

American  

noun

Electronics.

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

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Example Sentences

It was about the size of a C battery.

From Literature

“I need to find some C batteries. They said they’d give us gold.”

From Literature

“I came home,” Lieutenant Cleare said, “and I heard my mother on the phone: ‘All I know is that the bullets are the size of C batteries!’”

From New York Times

Press a button in the handle and two C batteries electrify the racket’s mesh; when a bug’s body hits, there’s a satisfying zzzap.

From The Wall Street Journal

He spotted the transistor radio, put the C batteries in it, and spun the dial until he got a New York station.

From Literature