Battery

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Battery may refer to:

• Battery (electricity), an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage; or one such cell
• Battery, the act of injuring another person in a manner likely to cause bodily harm:
  • Battery (crime), the criminal definition
  • Battery (tort), the common civil law definition
• Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces
  • A piece is "in battery" when it is loaded and ready to fire
  • A piece is "out of battery" if it is not ready to fire
• An array of similar things, e.g. "Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress."
• Battery farming, a term for industrial agriculture
• Battery (baseball), in baseball jargon, refers collectively to the pitcher and catcher.
• In chess, a battery consists of two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal.

Placenames

Several places are named either for the historical locations of coastal defense artillery batteries, or for the fancied appearance thereof:

• Battery Island, Tasmania, Australia
• Battery Park (New York), on Manhattan Island, United States
• Battery Park City, the area around Battery Park in Manhattan, United States
• Battery Park (Burlington, VT) in Vermont, United States
• Battery Park (Charleston), in South Carolina, United States
• Battery Point, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Australia
• Sultan Battery, in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India

Music

• Battery (song), a 1986 song by Metallica
• Battery (band), an American hardcore band
• Battery 9, a South African musical project
• Battery (drumline), a section within a modern marching drumline

Others

• Battery (drink), a brand of beverage
• "battery" (or "stamp battery") is a synonym for stamp mill

Etymology

"Battery" is derived from French batterie, from the verb French battre, Late Latin battuere = "to beat", of Germanic origin, compare Anglo-Saxon bēatan. Many of its modern uses arose as generalisations of the meaning artillery battery.

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