battery — OAT

battery

noun

1 her car had a dead battery:

cell, accumulator, power unit.

2 antiaircraft missile batteries:

gun emplacement, artillery unit;

(batteries) artillery, cannonry, ordnance, heavy weapons, heavy weaponry, guns, cannons.

3 a battery of equipment to monitor blood pressure:

array, set, bank, group, row, line, lineup, raft, collection, assortment.

4 the pediatrician ran a battery of tests:

series, sequence, range, set, cycle, chain, string, progression, succession.

5 I'll have the police on you for assault and battery:

violence, assault, mugging;

beating, striking, thumping, thrashing, bashing;

British grievous bodily harm, actual bodily harm, GBH, ABH.