Cannon vs Battery - What's the difference?
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A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.(JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(printing) (a large size of type)
To bombard with cannons
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
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A coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().
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A coordinated group of artillery.
An array of similar things.
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.
As a proper noun cannon
is .As a noun battery is
a coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().cannon
English
Noun
(en-noun)- In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
- He's got a cannon out in right.
Usage notes
The unchanged plural is preferred in Great Britain and Ireland, while North Americans and Australians tend to use the regular plural cannons . On aircraft, autocannons are sometimes called "cannons" for short.Verb
(en verb)- The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
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battery
English
(wikipedia battery)Noun
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- Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.