Battery

 Battery may refer to:

Energy sourceEdit

  • Electric battery, an electrochemical device to provide electrical power
    • Automotive battery, a device to provide power to certain functions of an automobile
    • List of battery types
  • Energy storage, including batteries that are not electrochemical

LawEdit

  • Battery (crime), a criminal offence involving unlawful physical contact
  • Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact

Military and naval usesEdit

  • Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces
    • Main battery, the primary weapons of a warship
    • Secondary battery (artillery), the smaller guns on a warship
  • Battery, a position of a cartridge in a firearm action

Arts and entertainmentEdit

MusicEdit

  • Battery (electro-industrial band)
  • Battery (hardcore punk band)
  • "Battery", a song by Metallica from the 1986 album Master of Puppets
  • Marching percussion ensemble, frequently known as a battery
  • Battery, a software music sampler by Native Instruments

Other uses in arts and entertainmentEdit

  • Battery (chess), a playing tactic
  • Battery (novel series), by Atsuko Asano
  • Battery Records (disambiguation), the name of several record labels
  • The Battery (disambiguation)#Films, the name of two films

PlacesEdit

  • The Battery (Manhattan), or Battery Park, New York, U.S.
  • The Battery (disambiguation)#Places, the name of several places
  • Battery Island, Tasmania, Australia
  • Battery Park (disambiguation), the name of several places
  • Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia

Other usesEdit

  • Battery (baseball), the pitcher and catcher collectively
  • Battery, or stamp mill, a type of mill
  • Battery Energy Drink, an energy drink made in Finland
  • Battery Ventures, an investment firm
  • Battery ware, items of beaten metal, cast work, and wire of latten, iron and steel, term used in Elizabethan England
  • Stamp Battery, a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding

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