lead-acid en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Describing a battery having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution; used in motor vehicles
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: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:
Translations (2)
ga luaidhe-aigéadach (having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution) · ga aigéid is luaidhe (having lead electrodes and an electrolyte of sulfuric acid solution)