armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

artillery unit, artillery - an army unit that uses big guns

A battery - battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube

B battery - battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube

C battery - battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube

electrical device - a device that produces or is powered by electricity

electrode - a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit

terminal, pole - a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

galvanic battery, voltaic battery - battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel

galvanic pile, voltaic pile, pile - battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

sub-test - one of a battery of related tests

artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance, gun - large but transportable armament

aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole

baseball team - a team that plays baseball

team, squad - a cooperative unit

pestle, stamp - machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

stamp mill, stamping mill - a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps

firing, fire - the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

assault - a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped

resisting arrest - physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest