Battery

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Battery may refer to:

• Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces; also gun battery with similar groupings on warships
• Battery (crime), criminal contact with another in a manner likely to cause bodily harm
  • Battery (tort), intentional harmful or offensive contact with a person under civil law
• Battery (electricity), electrochemical cells to produce electricity
  • Automotive battery
  • See List of battery types for links to electrical batteries
  • Battery room, 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 jars connected in parallel
• Battery position, a stage of operation of a firearm action
  • Out-of-battery, the discharge of a weapon before the action has returned to the normal firing position

Places

• The Battery, St. John's, Newfoundland
• Battery Island, Tasmania, Australia
• Battery Park, or its location at the Battery, in Manhattan, New York
  • Battery Park City, a neighborhood north of Battery Park in Manhattan
• Battery Park (Burlington, Vermont)
• The Battery (Charleston), South Carolina
• Battery Point, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart
• Sultan Battery, in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India

In entertainment

• Marching percussion, also called battery, in a modern drumline
• Battery (band), an American hardcore band
• The Battery (film), a 2007 Japanese film
• Battery (novel series), by Atsuko Asano
• "Battery" (song), a 1986 song by Metallica
• Battery 9, a South African music project
• Drum kit, sometimes called a battery

Other uses

• Battery (baseball), collectively, the pitcher and catcher
• Battery cage, a confinement system for egg-laying chickens
• Battery (chess), a tactic consisting of placing two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
• Battery (also stamp battery or stamp mill), a type of mill that crushes material by pounding

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