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lead-acid

lead-acid adjective: describing a battery having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution; used in motor vehicles.

Adjective

lead-acid (not comparable)

  1. Describing a battery having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution; used in motor vehicles
    • The lighting equipment consists of [an] axle-driven shunt field dynamo with a regulator combining all the necessary switch gear as a unit, and a lead acid accumulator cell battery housed in two boxes on the underframe.1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328
    • The lead-acid batteries are mounted beneath the underframe in two parts, one either side of locomotive.1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, pages 381–382

Questions about lead-acid

What does lead-acid mean?
Lead-acid means describing a battery having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution; used in motor vehicles.
What part of speech is lead-acid?
Lead-acid is an adjective.

Words near lead-acid in the dictionary

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  2. lead vocals
  3. lead white
  4. lead with one's chin
  5. lead, follow, or get out of the way
  6. lead-acid
  7. lead-colored
  8. lead-footed
  9. lead-free
  10. lead-glazed
  11. lead-in

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