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Battery vs Antibattery - What's the difference?

battery | antibattery |

As a noun battery

is a coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().

As an adjective antibattery is

opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).

battery

English

(wikipedia battery)

Noun

(batteries)
  • A coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
  • (legal) The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person.
  • A coordinated group of artillery.
  • An array of similar things.
    • Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
  • A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
  • (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
  • (chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
  • The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.

    • Derived terms

    * assault and battery * battery-backed * battery hen * battery-operated * battery power * battery-powered (-)

    See also

    * accumulator * assault * replacement battery

    antibattery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).
  • * 1998 , Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: in praise of difficult women
    • Even though shelters and antibattery task forces are probably damn near useless to a woman madly in love, we go on hoping...
  • * 2000 , John Stoltenberg, Refusing to be a man: essays on sex and justice
    • Among a lot of experts and activists in the antibattery movement, the evidence has generally been accepted that one of the reasons men batter is because of something called the "male sex role stereotype."