battery
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 电池，殴打
构词拆分
batter#Verb词根/词干
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y.
The electrical sense was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (electricity, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- (metonymic, informal, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical