Battery

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Contents 1 Places 2 Music 3 Movies 4 Others 5 Etymology

Battery may refer to:

• Battery (electricity), an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage, or one such cell
  • See List of battery types for links to electrical batteries
  • Battery room
• Battery (crime), contact with another in a manner likely to cause bodily harm
• Battery (tort), intentional harmful or offensive contact with a person under civil law
• Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces; also gun battery with similar groupings on warships.
• Battery Position, the stage of a gun's firing cycle where the mechanism is ready to fire and the operating components correctly present in their respective positions. Contrast out-of-battery.
• Battery (baseball), collectively the pitcher and catcher
• Battery cage, used in industrial agriculture
• Battery (chess), a tactic consisting of placing two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal.
• Battery (novel series), a novel series

[edit] 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 neighborhood north of Battery Park in Manhattan
• Battery Park (Burlington, VT)
• Battery Park (Charleston), South Carolina
• Battery Point, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart
• Sultan Battery, in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India

[edit] Music

• Battery (song), a 1986 song by Metallica
• Battery (band), an American hardcore band
• Battery 9, a South African musical project
• A section within a modern marching drumline
• A Drum kit is sometimes called a "Battery"; the drummer is sometimes called a "batterist"

[edit] Movies

• The Battery (film), a 2007 Japanese film

[edit] Others

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

[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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