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“Battery” is most often used with the meaning “Electric battery”, but it is a broader term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.o
by Someone 4y ago
“Battery” is most often used with the meaning “Electric battery”, but it is a broader term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage: “A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery”
- Retric 4y ago<pedantic>No, accumulator is the generic term battery is specifically the chemical storage: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/battery https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/battery “a group of two or more cells (see CELL sense 5) connected together to furnish electric current” Battery is a generic term for collection of things working together, guns/generators/medical tests etc. This why batteries where initially called such, they are a collection of smaller cells operating together which doesn’t apply to say pumped storage. Sometime battery is used descriptively Ex: “A Carnot battery is a type of energy storage system that stores electricity in thermal energy storage.” Note they said it’s a type of energy storage system rather than type of battery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_battery
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoWords mean what people who use them intend them to mean.
- Retric 4y agoIf that where true then misspoken words would mean what the person intended and people wouldn’t correct themselves. Instead people try to chose words so their audience understand what was said because people aren’t telepathic.