Battery. A battery is a hardware component that supplies power to a device, enabling that device to work without a power cord. Batteries are often capable of powering a laptop computer for several hours depending on how much power it requires.ou are here: Dictionary B-Definitions. A battery is a hardware component that supplies power to a device, enabling that device to work without a power cord.
Middle name Mohammed claim. One chain e-mail claimed incorrectly that President Obama's middle name is Mohammed or Muhammed. His actual middle name is Hussein. Polls and surveys. Public opinion surveys carried out, beginning in 2008, have shown that a number of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim.
Democrat from Illinois. Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School.