RECHARGEABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rechargeable mean? 

• RECHARGEABLE (adjective)
  The adjective RECHARGEABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being recharged

  Familiarity information: RECHARGEABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECHARGEABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being recharged

Context example:

a rechargeable battery

Similar:

reversible (capable of reversing or being reversed)

 Context examples 

The rechargeable battery uses oxygen directly from the air, not stored, to yield high battery capacity.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

Device problems related to the energy storage system (e.g. the rechargeable battery, charging system, or capacitor) and includes problems such as premature power source depletion and battery explosions.

(Device Energy Storage System Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Researchers at the University of Minnesota, through the National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, found that a common, non-disease-causing bacterium in the environment, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, developed rapid resistance when repeatedly exposed to nanoparticles used in making lithium ion batteries, the rechargeable batteries used in portable electronics and electric vehicles.

(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

But they had one serious drawback: They were not rechargeable.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

An accumulator is an apparatus by means of which energy can be stored, such as a rechargeable battery or a hydraulic accumulator.

(Device Energy Storage System Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

These new rechargeable batteries, which use molten electrolytes, oxygen from air, and special multiple electron storage electrodes, have the highest intrinsic electric energy storage capacities of any other batteries to date.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

Rechargeable molten batteries (without air), such as a molten sulfur battery, have been previously investigated, but are limited by a low storage capacity.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)