Not even disagreeing with you, but it's a funny evolution of language when you consider the origin of the term battery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery

Not even disagreeing with you, but it's a funny evolution of language when you consider the origin of the term battery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_battery We owe the term to Benjamin Franklin, who used it to describe what you're referring to as a pack (although Leyden jars are considered capacitors rather than batteries in modern terms). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_battery#Invention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_battery#Invention