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battery-powered

battery-powered adjective: fitted with a battery or batteries, which provide the power to operate the device.

Adjective

battery-powered (not comparable)

  1. Fitted with a battery or batteries, which provide the power to operate the device.
    • "These next-generation trams are battery-powered, and designed to operate on new sections of the line between Grand Central and Hagley Road which are free of overhead cables," said West Midlands mayor Andy Street. [...] Catenary-free testing has taken place on the Centenary Square extension; this...2019 October 23, Rail, pages 26, 27

Synonyms of battery-powered

Origin of battery-powered

From battery + powered.

Questions about battery-powered

What does battery-powered mean?
Battery-powered means fitted with a battery or batteries, which provide the power to operate the device.
What part of speech is battery-powered?
Battery-powered is an adjective.

Words near battery-powered in the dictionary

  1. battery power
  2. battery-backed
  3. battery-electric
  4. battery-included
  5. battery-operated
  6. battery-powered
  7. Batterygate
  8. batteryless
  9. batterylike
  10. batteryman
  11. batterymate

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