(v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
(v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
(v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
(v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
(v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
(v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
(v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
(v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
(v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
(v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Study 1, the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) was administered to samples of patients meeting Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for schizodepressive disorder, major depressive disorder or schizophrenia, and to a normal control group.
(2) Individual tests and batteries of tests should be standardized, employ positive controls, generate results capable of quantitative analyses that may make dichotomous classification as "positive" and "negative" obsolete, be interpreted in light of mechanisms of action, and be cost-effective on a grand scale.
(3) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
(4) The Carcinogenicity Prediction and Battery Selection procedure was developed to address two problems: (1) the identification of highly predictive, yet cost-effective, batteries of short-term tests and (2) the objective prediction of the potential carcinogenicity of chemicals based upon the results of short-term tests even when a mixture of positive and negative results is obtained.
(5) • Regulations requiring manufacturers of electrical goods and batteries to take financial responsibility for their safe disposal will be liberalised or improved.
(6) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
(7) We evaluated nine ambulatory insulin infusion pumps from seven manufacturers, basing our ratings primarily on human factors--size, weight, battery type, and adequate reservoir capacity (i.e., 48 hr insulin supply).
(8) In two cases, repositioning of the batteries was necessary because of local muscle stimulation.
(9) A pure Domal magnesium anode was utilized with this cathode, which seemed to be a good compromise between to battery's voltage, its lifetime, and its lack of toxicity to body tissues.
(10) This question was part of a multiple battery of questions concerning the medical, social, environmental and behavioural background of the child.
(11) One component of the test battery was a simple test described by Albert in which patients cross out lines ruled in a standard fashion on a sheet of paper; this was easy to administer and related closely to neglect diagnosed by the test battery as a whole.
(12) We report the results of a protocol for choosing candidates for temporal lobectomy using a standard battery of objective tests without intracranial electrodes.
(13) One hundred children referred for evaluation of attention and learning problems were administered a battery of tests including two vigilance tasks, other laboratory measures of inattention and impulsivity, and parent and teacher ratings.
(14) Citing figures that predicted already falling costs of renewables and battery storage would halve again in the next five years, Shorten predicts “consumers not governments” would drive the energy change.
(15) Five serological methods of diagnosing African horse sickness were evaluated, using a battery of serum samples from experimental horses vaccinated and challenged with each serotype of African horse sickness virus (AHSV1 through AHSV9): agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID), indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA), complement fixation (CF), virus neutralization (VN), and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(16) Twenty-five male stroke patients were assessed with the use of a battery of perceptual tests (Gross Visual Skills [Baum, 1981].
(17) The protocol was devised by first evaluating a range of kits in London using a battery of African and non-African sera and then field testing 1455 sera in Malaŵi, which included 184 sera from leprosy patients and 60 sera from syphilis patients to check for cross-reactivity.
(18) Recorded 2-hour clinical interview plus a battery of standardized as well as specially designed psychological tests were administered to 271 Ss.
(19) In spite of the available data on the mean life-expectancy of the various batteries, the individual time of depletion cannot be predicted with accuracy.
(20) The death of your battery is now one of the factors that will push you to upgrade.” As Joanna Stern put it in her review of the iPhone 6s in the Wall Street Journal: “The No 1 thing people want in a smartphone is better battery life.
Tort
Definition:
(n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.
(n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.
(a.) Stretched tight; taut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(2) A simple one clause Abolition of Privacy Bill: "The tort of misuse of private information is hereby abolished" might be thought to be sufficient.
(3) The torted testes of the sixty-minute group receiving RP-30A revealed a significant difference (decrease) in uptake indicating that RP-30A may be a more sensitive tracer in detecting testicular blood flow changes in early testicular torsion.
(4) For example, tort liability expansion was primarily instituted to compel a greater provision of liability insurance, not to reward stress claims.
(5) Change is in the wind, and our tort system will be blown away on the winds of change for change's sake unless we participate in correcting deficiencies in the tort system and civil jury trial process."
(6) The relationship of the doctor to the private patient is governed by the law of contract and in a particular case may impose a greater duty on the doctor than that imposed by tort.
(7) Traditional views in the areas of contract and tort, with some comments on the current changes in that law, are described.
(8) There have been numerous theoretical analyses of statistical proof of injury in toxic tort cases.
(9) The tinkering with the tort system following the 1975 malpractice crisis will not ease the constantly increasing cost burden on the health care delivery system.
(10) This paper explores the way in which the principles of tort law might define primary and secondary liability for these new health professionals.
(11) Recommendations were also put forward that no damages should be permitted for non-pecuniary loss during the first 3 months and that the full value of the social security benefits should be deductible from all tort damages.
(12) The costs of a compensation system for medical injury regardless of fault could be met by eliminating the friction costs of the tort system, and would be helped by establishing national health insurance.
(13) The authors trace these developments in the legal arena in both tort actions and complaints under civil rights statutes.
(14) This paper explores the foregoing issues, discusses medical versus legal concepts of causation, outlines the legal tests for admissibility of novel scientific evidence (including Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the Frye test of general acceptance by the relevant scientific community), and presents a toxic tort case in which expert psychiatric testimony addressed the issue of causation of schizophrenia.
(15) In 1984, the New Jersey Supreme Court became the first high court to impose liability successfully upon social hosts for the torts of their intoxicated adult guests.
(16) Even if the counselor is not directly employed by the professional, so that the tort doctrine of respondeat superior would not pertain, other ties could cause either a direct agency or an ostensible agency doctrine to attach.
(17) It is also emphasised that the improvements in the tort system, in accountability, and in data collection for risk management purposes are essential adjuncts to any such compensation scheme.
(18) These suits come under the category of tort law, where damages are sought to compensate those whose interests have been harmed.
(19) The authors discuss difficulties that arise with the current system of tort liability and argue that a no-fault compensation program is warranted.
(20) He can't see how that could be done without withdrawing from the Council of Euopre and therefore leaving the EU itself • Introducing a statutory tort of privacy • Have a new 'privacy regime' under a statutory regulator • Steady as she goes – leaving judges to develop the law.