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Synonyms

storage battery

American  

noun

Electricity.
  1. a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.

  2. storage cell.


storage battery British  

noun

  1. another name (esp US) for accumulator

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of storage battery

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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Over the next decade, Lima worked with Seabra, who first joined the project as a graduate student, to improve the sensors, enhancing data storage, battery life, and other attributes.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023

But the economics improve if you add a storage battery to your system, which would let you draw less power from the utility grid during costly peak hours after the sun goes down.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2023

The company that Mr. Bitner co-founded in Munich in 2016, VoltStorage, found some success selling storage battery packs for solar power to homeowners in Europe.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2022

Germany is the world’s top home storage battery market with 300,000 stationary batteries, a market currently led by Solarwatt rival Sonnen, which is part of Shell.

From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2021

It weighed as much as a storage battery.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut