storage battery

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noun Electricity.

a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
storage cell.

Origin of storage battery

First recorded in 1880–85

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Related Words for storage battery

accumulator

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Historical Examples of storage battery

There is a common notion that electricity is stored in the storage-battery.
Electricity and Magnetism
Elisha Gray
What were they doing with an alternating current in the storage-battery room?
The Man Who Rocked the Earth
Arthur Train
The brain is a storage-battery made up of millions of minute cells.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14
Elbert Hubbard
The storage-battery, when ready for action, is one form of acid or primary battery.
Electricity and Magnetism
Elisha Gray
This is a storage-battery of the standard chloride accumulator type.
The Gunner's Examiner
Harold E. Cloke

British Dictionary definitions for storage battery

storage battery

noun

another name (esp US) for accumulator (def. 1)

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