battery
assembly of one or more electrochemical cells, used to provide devices with stored electrical energy
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Summary
battery is a type of electronic component[1]. battery draws 7,686 Wikipedia views per month (type of electronic component category, ranking #4 of 16).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Alessandro Volta[3]
- Instance of: active electronic component[4]
- Subclass of: accumulator[5], electric power source[6]
- Has use: battery-powered device[7], energy storage[8]
- Commons category: Electric batteries[9]
- Unicode character: 🔋[10]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1800[11]
- Source of energy: redox[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Electric battery[13]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], The New Student's Reference Work[17]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox battery[18]
- Has characteristic: rated current[19], state of charge[20], energy density[21], specific energy[22], cutoff voltage[23], nominal voltage[24], battery level[25]
- Different from: capacitor[26], galvanic cell[27], artillery battery[28], battery[29]
- ACM Classification Code (2012): 10010664[30]
- History of topic: history of the battery[31]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[32]
- WordLift URL: http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/battery[33]
Why It Matters
battery has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] battery is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]