storage cell

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.

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Etymology

Origin of storage cell

First recorded in 1880–85

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storage cell

It took him more than 50,000 botched experiments to invent the alkaline storage cell battery and 9,000 to perfect the light bulb.

From Time ● Oct. 24, 2017

The usual type of storage cell contains sheets of spongy lead separated from sheets of spongy lead peroxide in a weak solution of sulphuric acid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside this hand are "the works": an amplifier to magnify the body's muscle currents about 20,000 times, a storage cell, an electric motor and some gears.

From Time Magazine Archive

This fact of itself tends to keep down the size of the storage cell which is most popular.

From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George

While charging the storage cell there was formed on the negative plate a coating of soft lead, and on the positive plate a coating of dark-brown oxide of lead.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth