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- noun Plural form of
charging .
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Examples
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The battery allows me to run the device for hours between chargings, far longer than my main notebook can run.
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It is under investigation and chargings are pending in that.
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The credit program, which will cost Apple about $36 million, results from Apple settling a class-action lawsuit alleging it misrepresented how long iPod batteries lasted between chargings.
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Somehow engineers at Tesla Motors in California found room in the firm's new electric Roadster to fit enough lithium-ion batteries -- 7,000 of them -- to power the vehicle for 400 kilometers between chargings.
Long Ranger 2007
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The chargings to and fro in the narrow passages, the collisions, the yells, the struggling with crates and trays and blocks of ice, the heat, the darkness, the furious festering quarrels which there was no time to fight out — they pass description.
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The elephants stopped; they rocked their heavy heads with their chargings of ostrich feathers, striking their shoulders the while with their trunks.
Salammbo 2003
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The chargings to and fro in the narrow passages, the collisions, the yells, the struggling with crates and trays and blocks of ice, the heat, the darkness, the furious festering quarrels which there was no time to fight outthey pass description.
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You do not find here so done to the life the chargings of lordly tuskers, the gilt and crimson, the scarlet and pomp and blazonry, of war.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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The plank footways were enclosed by stout rails to guard against the chargings of long-horned cattle chased through the thoroughfares by lasso-whirling "bull-drivers" as wild as they.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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But among all of us, the consensus was we had to take a look at the chargings and boardings, too, and try to eliminate some of the injuries that were taking place on the ice due to these hits.
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