What is the difference between electric and battery operated?

Question

When I think of something that is electric, I think of plugging it into an electricity outlet. When I think of battery operated, I think of charged batteries in a device in order to make it work.

Is a battery operated device considered to be electric too?

Answer 1

Yep, cause the batteries produce the voltage needed for the device to work.

Answer 2

direct and alternating curent. direct curent has a higher amphere.

Answer 3

electric charging is through and AC outlet in your house or apartment, battery operaed the item runs off of battery power, the dowenside to battery power is genenral, battiers only last a total of 8-12 hours give or take, and if they are not rechargeable and you use battreries all the time it will cost you alot of money to keep replacing them, on an 8 hour basis, you may be replacing battieies every 2-3 days depenig on how long daily you use them with AC charging or electric unles you have a ower outage the item will run indefintely

in most cases you can use rechargeble batteries in anything, just make sureif you do, to FULLY charge the battrie before use and to maximine their life full drain them before you recharge, but with battries over time een rechargble batteries will oose both their ability to retsain a chsarge as well as to recharge

they are like leleastic, if you strech eestic enough it looses it's streching albity

Answer 4

Batteries and wall sockets are just methods of delivery.  Anything that uses either is electric.  Also, even though wall sockets are AC as opposed to batteries being DC, most electric/electronic devices still require DC voltage to operate, meaning household devices use a power supply to convert wall power to DC.  A very few devices do require AC power to operate, which batteries cannot satisfy, but in either case, both are still electric.

As you point out, it's more about common usage of terminology to describe something rather than literal accuracy.

Answer 5

Technically it still electric but I agree with you. I think of something called electric as needing to be plugged in. Otherwise, you just say battery operated.