Battery
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Battery may refer to:
- Artillery batteryArtillery batteryIn military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of guns, mortars, rockets or missiles so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems...
, an organized group of artillery pieces; also gun battery with similar groupings on warships - Battery (crime)Battery (crime)Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault which is the fear of such contact.In the United States, criminal battery, or simply battery, is the use of force against another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact...
, contact with another in a manner likely to cause bodily harm- Battery (tort)Battery (tort)At common law, battery is the tort of intentionally and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them . Unlike assault, battery involves an actual contact...
, intentional harmful or offensive contact with a person under civil law
- Battery (tort)
- Battery (electricity)Battery (electricity)An electrical battery is one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first battery in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and especially since the technically improved Daniell cell in 1836, batteries have become a common power...
, electrochemical cells to produce electricity- Automotive battery
- See List of battery types for links to electrical batteries
- Battery roomBattery roomA battery room is a room in a facility used to house batteries for backup or uninterruptible power systems. Battery rooms are found in telecommunication central offices, and to provide standby power to computing equipment in datacenters...
, a facility used to house batteries for large-scale backup power systems - Battery, 18th and 19th century term for a number of capacitors or Leyden jarLeyden jarA Leyden jar, or Leiden jar, is a device that "stores" static electricity between two electrodes on the inside and outside of a jar. It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden in 1745–1746. The...
s connected in parallel
- Battery position, a stage of operation of a firearm actionFirearm actionIn firearms terminology, an action is the physical mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech. The term is also used to describe the method in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism. Actions are generally categorized by the type of mechanism used...
- Out-of-batteryOut-of-batteryOut-of-battery refers to the status of a weapon before the action has returned to the normal firing position. The term originates from artillery, referring to a gun that fires before it has been pulled back into its firing position in a gun battery....
, the discharge of a weapon before the action has returned to the normal firing position
- Out-of-battery
Places
- The Battery, St. John'sThe Battery, St. John'sThe Battery is a small neighbourhood within the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.The Battery sits on the entrance to the harbour located on the slopes of Signal Hill. Sometimes described as an outport within the city of St. John's. The area is noted for its steep slopes, colourful...
, Newfoundland - Battery IslandBattery IslandBattery Island is a small granite island, with an area of 0.68 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Passage Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group.-Fauna:...
, Tasmania, Australia - Battery ParkBattery ParkBattery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years in order to protect the settlement behind them...
, or its location at the Battery, in Manhattan, New York- Battery Park City, a neighborhood north of Battery Park in Manhattan
- Battery Park (Burlington, VT)Battery Park (Burlington, VT)Battery Park is a public park overlooking Lake Champlain at the western end of downtown Burlington, Vermont. The park includes a bandshell, a playground, and various monuments, including a bronze statue of Civil War General William W...
- Battery Park (Charleston)Battery Park (Charleston)Battery Park , which includes a park known as White Point Gardens, is a landmark promenade in Charleston, South Carolina famous for its stately antebellum homes. First used as a public park in 1837, it became a place for artillery during the American Civil War...
, South Carolina - Battery Point, TasmaniaBattery Point, TasmaniaBattery Point is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is immediately south of the Central business district. It is in the local government area of City of Hobart....
, a suburb of Hobart - Sultan Battery, in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India
In entertainment
- Marching percussionMarching percussionMarching percussion instruments are specially designed to be played while moving. This is achieved by attaching the drum to a special harness worn by the drummer. The drums are designed and tuned for maximum articulation and projection of sound, as marching activities are almost always outdoors or...
, also called battery, in a modern drumline - Battery (band)Battery (band)Battery was a Washington D.C. hardcore band that existed from 1990 until 1998. During this time they released a 7", a split 7" with Ignite, two MCDs and three full-length albums on Deadlock, Lost & Found, Tidal, Conversion, and Revelation Records....
, an American hardcore band - The Battery (film)The Battery (film)is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Yōjirō Takita, which is based on the novel series with the same title. There is a 2008 Japanese drama series, Battery, based on the same novel...
, a 2007 Japanese film - Battery (novel series)Battery (novel series)is a novel series by Atsuko Asano that was published by Kadokawa Shoten. For the work the author received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 and the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005....
, by Atsuko Asano - "Battery" (song)Battery (song)"Battery" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It is the opening track and was released as the second single from their third album, Master of Puppets.-Structure:...
, a 1986 song by Metallica - Battery 9Battery 9Battery 9 , an industrial music project from Johannesburg, South Africa, is the brainchild of Paul Riekert, who writes, plays and records the music in a mixture of English and Afrikaans...
, a South African music project - Drum kitDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, sometimes called a battery
Other uses
- Battery (baseball)Battery (baseball)In baseball, the term battery refers collectively to the pitcher and the catcher, who may also be called batterymen or batterymates of one another.- History :...
, collectively, the pitcher and catcher - Battery cageBattery cageIn poultry farming, battery cages are an industrial agricultural confinement system used primarily for egg-laying hens...
, a confinement system for egg-laying chickens - Battery (chess)Battery (chess)A battery in chess is a formation that consists of two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal. It is a tactic involved in planning a series of captures to remove the protection of the opponent's king, or to simply gain in the exchanges...
, a tactic consisting of placing two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal - Battery (also stamp battery or stamp millStamp millA stamp mill is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking material down is a type of unit operation....
), a type of mill that crushes material by pounding