Battery
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Battery may refer to:
- 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 guns
- Battery (electricity), an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage
- Battery farming, a term for industrial agriculture
[edit] Placenames
- Battery Park (New York), a former artillery fortification 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
- Battery Road, Singapore, a major road in Raffles Place, Singapore
[edit] Music
- Battery (song), a 1986 song by Metallica
- Battery (band), an American hardcore band
- Battery 9, a South African musical project
- Battery Records is the label for a record company
- Battery (album), an 2004 album by the Seattle Indie band Aveo
- Battery (drumline), a section within a modern marching drumline
[edit] Others
- Battery (drink), a brand of beverage
- "The battery", baseball jargon for a team's pitcher and catcher, considered as a unit
- Battery, a Japanese novel series by Asano Atsuko of which a manga series is currently being released
- Battery, a 2007 Japanese movie based on the novel series of the same name
[edit] 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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