BATTERIES Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

batteries

noun

plural of battery

as in clusters

a number of things considered as a unit a battery of tests to determine the cause of the medical disorder

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as in groups

a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a battery of specialists worked on the problem until it was fixed

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Recent Examples of batteries By upgrading synthetic skin from a passive sensor into an energy harvester, the Fudan team offers a clever alternative to deadweight batteries. — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026 This is true in such areas as quantum computing, biotechnology, semiconductors, next-generation energy, batteries, storage, 6G mobile communications, and high-performance computing. — David S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026 Kemp asked residents to gather water, food, batteries, flashlights and other necessities. — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 All these benefits could eventually help bring sodium batteries closer to mainstream adoption than just depending on lithium ones. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026 But getting solid-state batteries into some cars may not mean getting them into every car or even most of them. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026 Billions of copper-top batteries are already assembled in Georgia. — Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The trajectories separated into four distinct clusters corresponding to rest, meditation, music, and the movie.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
The company also has an edge on its peers because of its ability to improve the performance of GPU clusters, which should give its stock an additional boost, per Mohan.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of clusters

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Nine of the 10 largest individual and family donors in CNBC’s overall top 20 groups are Republican-aligned, accounting for 86 cents of every dollar contributed by the top 10, according to CNBC’s analysis of FEC records.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Though professional society guidelines recommended against performing this biopsy on women 70 or older with early-stage cancer, other groups had reported that it was still being done.

— Allessandra DiCorato, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of groups

Noun

For one, operating data centers in space would require massive solar arrays to capture the sun’s rays and turn it into energy.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Honeybee Robotics is one of the companies that have been working under NASA's Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) project, which has been developing solar arrays to create the necessary power for a sustained presence on the moon in the future.

— Julian Dossett, Space.com, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of arrays

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Food safety officials swept into the kitchen, scrutinizing the tandoori ovens and expiration dates on batches of butter.

— Zishaan a Latif, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Zhou timed what happened between batches, and found that, during a six-hour changeover, only one hour was useful.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of batches

Noun

Some 37% of Gen Z women kept their collections on view only within their own households, compared with 16% of Gen Z men.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
The series is based upon Helene Tursten’s short story collections An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of collections

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In public health, the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stressed the need for the continent to manufacture its own vaccines, and to do so in regional groupings.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
My groupings range from sterling silver flatware to matchbooks, but my most prized grouping is my trove of fine art.

— Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of groupings

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According to accounts of the case, Downey was abducted after Hindley asked her to help carry packages to a car.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
An illusion who has to smoke through his COVID mask and juggle packages and doughnut shop coffee, but an illusion nonetheless.

— Roberta Mercuri, Vanity Fair, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of packages

Noun

Dennis and Rosa encounter all sorts of people, from feuding Take That tribute bands to Irish bachelorettes, comedians and bingo enthusiasts.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Isaias’ bands could drench Florida’s Panhandle and Big Bend with as much as 15 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.

— Robin Webb, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

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