floating battery

noun

1

: a storage battery connected across an electric line or feeder to equalize the load and maintain the voltage constant

2

: a battery erected on a raft or the hull of a ship or a ship carrying heavy guns and designed as a gun platform rather than for navigation formerly used in coast defense and in attacking fortifications

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