Battery is just terminology that the Bell System used to refer to voltages being provided by power supplies. Maybe this dates back to the days when power for the phone network really was provided by batteries. Who knows?
Our resident vintage Western Electric guru (Arthur P. Bloom) might chime in with a real answer to your question.
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