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Barbette batteryBarbette Bar*bette", n. [F. Cf. Barbet.] (Fort.)
A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which
guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are
elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not
through embrasures.
Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a
number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially
protected by a parapet or turret.
Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns
sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of
Casemate.] Fixed batteryFixed Fixed (f[i^]kst), a.
1. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm;
imovable; unalterable.
2. (Chem.) Stable; non-volatile.
Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; --
so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed
by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
Fixed alkali (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, or
potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.
Fixed ammunition (Mil.), a projectile and powder inclosed
together in a case ready for loading.
Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns
and mortars intended to remain stationary; --
distinguished from movable battery.
Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or
separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty,
as gold, platinum, lime, etc.
Fixed capital. See the Note under Capital, n., 4.
Fixed fact, a well established fact. [Colloq.]
Fixed light, one which emits constant beams; --
distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent
light.
Fixed oils (Chem.), non-volatile, oily substances, as
stearine and olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain,
and which can not be distilled unchanged; -- distinguished
from volatile or essential oils.
Fixed pivot (Mil.), the fixed point about which any line of
troops wheels.
Fixed stars (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly
the same apparent position and distance with respect to
each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets. Floating batteryFloating Float"ing, a.
1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a
wreck; floating motes in the air.
2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating
ribs in man and some other animals.
3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
floating capital; a floating debt.
Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been
withdrawn in great masses from the island.
--Macaulay.
Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.
Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the
hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the
bombardment of a place.
Floating bridge.
(a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor
of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau
bridge. See Bateau.
(b) (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one
projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being
moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops
over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.
(c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by
means of chains which are anchored on each side of a
stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels
being driven by stream power.
(d) The landing platform of a ferry dock.
Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely
in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the
functions of the latter.
Floating dam.
(a) An anchored dam.
(b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.
Floating derrick, a derrick on a float for river and harbor
use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor
improvements, etc.
Floating dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.
Floating harbor, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored
and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships
riding at anchor to leeward. --Knight.
Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum
lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water
of American ponds.
Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard
with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under
Wandering.
Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel
moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners
of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy
or floating stage.
Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under
Wandering.
Floating pier, a landing stage or pier which rises and
falls with the tide.
Floating ribs (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which
are not connected with the others in front; in man they
are the last two pairs.
Floating screed (Plastering), a strip of plastering first
laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the
coat.
Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several
other threads without being interwoven with them, in a
woven fabric. Flowing batteryFlowing Flow"ing, a.
That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb);
gliding along smoothly; copious.
Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant
by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or
cells. --Knight.
Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be
drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.
Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened
to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. --Totten. Galvanic batteryGalvanic Gal*van"ic, a. [From Galvani, a professor of
physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about
1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity:
cf. F. galvanique.]
Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of,
galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating
electrical currents by the mutual action of certain
liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic
battery. See Battery.
Galvanic circuit or circle. (Elec.) See under Circuit.
Galvanic pile (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See under
Voltaic. Gas battery Note: Gas is often used adjectively or in combination; as,
gas fitter or gasfitter; gas meter or gas-meter, etc.
Air gas (Chem.), a kind of gas made by forcing air through
some volatile hydrocarbon, as the lighter petroleums. The
air is so saturated with combustible vapor as to be a
convenient illuminating and heating agent.
Gas battery (Elec.), a form of voltaic battery, in which
gases, especially hydrogen and oxygen, are the active
agents.
Gas carbon, Gas coke, etc. See under Carbon, Coke,
etc.
Gas coal, a bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high
percentage of volatile matters, and therefore available
for the manufacture of illuminating gas. --R. W. Raymond.
Gas engine, an engine in which the motion of the piston is
produced by the combustion or sudden production or
expansion of gas; -- especially, an engine in which an
explosive mixture of gas and air is forced into the
working cylinder and ignited there by a gas flame or an
electric spark. Graphite batteryGraphite Graph"ite, n. [Gr. gra`fein to write: cf. F.
graphite. See Graphic.] (Min.)
Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or
granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so
soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils
(improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a
lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead.
Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery consisting of
zinc and carbon in sulphuric acid, or other exciting
liquid. Gravity battery 3. Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence,
seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.
They derive an importance from . . . the gravity of
the place where they were uttered. --Burke.
4. (Physics) The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center
of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the
center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
5. (Mus.) Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness.
Center of gravity See under Center.
Gravity battery, See Battery, n., 4.
Specific gravity, the ratio of the weight of a body to the
weight of an equal volume of some other body taken as the
standard or unit. This standard is usually water for
solids and liquids, and air for gases. Thus, 19, the
specific gravity of gold, expresses the fact that, bulk
for bulk, gold is nineteen times as heavy as water. Local batteryLocal Lo"cal, a. [L. localis, fr. locus place: cf. F. local.
See Lieu, Locus.]
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite
region or portion of space; restricted to one place or
region; as, a local custom.
Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
--Shak.
Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a
particular county, where the cause arises; --
distinguished from transitory actions.
Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a
particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the
system.
Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass,
causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction,
especially on shipboard.
Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the
recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as
distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for
the line.
Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery.
Local color.
(a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not
caused by accidental influences, as of reflection,
shadow, etc.
(b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its
inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is
laid.
Local option, the right or obligation of determining by
popular vote within certain districts, as in each county,
city, or town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages
within the district shall be allowed. Masked batteryMasked Masked, a.
1. Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks;
cincealed; hidden.
2. (Bot.) Same as Personate.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Having the anterior part of the head differing
decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said
of birds.
Masked ball, a ball in which the dancers wear masks.
Masked battery (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be
seen by an enemy until it opens fire. --H. L. Scott.
Masked crab (Zo["o]l.), a European crab (Corystes
cassivelaunus) with markings on the carapace somewhat
resembling a human face.
Masked pig (Zo["o]l.), a Japanese domestic hog (Sus
pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed. Relay batteryRelay Re*lay" (r?-l?"), n. [F. relais (cf. OF. relais
relaxation, discontinuance, It. rilascio release, relief,
rilasso relay), fr. OF. relaissier to abandon, release, fr.
L. relaxare. See Relax.]
1. A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording
relief from time to time, or at successive stages;
provision for successive relief. Specifically:
(a) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in
readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may
proceed without delay.
(b) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness
at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses,
and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes
that way.
(c) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some
work.
2. (Elec.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a
magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused
by it to bring into into action the power of a local
battery for performing the work of making the record;
also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit
is made to open or close another circuit in which a
current is passing.
Relay battery (Elec.), the local battery which is brought
into use by the action of the relay magnet, or relay. Storage batteryStorage Stor"age, n.
1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe
keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
2. Space for the safe keeping of goods.
3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery. Thermobattery
Thermobattery Ther`mo*bat"ter*y, n. [Thermo- + battery.]
A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.
Voltaic batteryVoltaic Vol*ta"ic, a. [Cf. F. volta["i]que, It. voltaico.]
1. Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised
apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical
action, and established this branch of electric science;
discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.
2. Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as,
voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.
Note: See the Note under Galvanism.
Voltaic arc, a luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed
between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a
powerful voltaic current.
Voltaic battery, an apparatus variously constructed,
consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar
metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and
subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by
which a current of electricity is generated whenever the
two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a
conductor; a galvanic battery. See Battery, 4.
(b), and Note.
Voltaic circuit. See under Circuit.
Voltaic couple or element, a single pair of the connected
plates of a battery.
Voltaic electricity. See the Note under Electricity.
Voltaic pile, a kind of voltaic battery consisting of
alternate disks of dissimilar metals, separated by
moistened cloth or paper. See 5th Pile.
Voltaic protection of metals, the protection of a metal
exposed to the corrosive action of sea water, saline or
acid liquids, or the like, by associating it with a metal
which is positive to it, as when iron is galvanized, or
coated with zinc. voltaic batteryGalvanic Gal*van"ic, a. [From Galvani, a professor of
physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about
1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity:
cf. F. galvanique.]
Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of,
galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating
electrical currents by the mutual action of certain
liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic
battery. See Battery.
Galvanic circuit or circle. (Elec.) See under Circuit.
Galvanic pile (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See under
Voltaic. Water battery
Water battery Wa"ter bat"ter*y
1. (Elec.) A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is
water.
2. (Mil.) A battery nearly on a level with the water.
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valve regulated lead–acid (VRLA)
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