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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A source of electricity consisting of a number of alternating disks of two different metals separated by absorbent material moistened with an electrolyte, forming primary cells connected in series.
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- noun battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
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