Battery

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Battery may refer to:

• Battery (electricity), electrochemical cells that transform chemical energy into electricity
  • Automotive battery
  • Any of several other battery types
  • Battery, 18th and 19th century term for a number of capacitors or Leyden jars connected in parallel
• Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces
• Battery (crime), a criminal offense
  • Battery (tort), a legal term describing intentional harmful or offensive contact

Places

• 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)
• Battery Point, Tasmania
• Sultan Battery, in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India

Entertainment

• Marching percussion, also called battery, in a modern drumline
• Battery (band)
• Battery (electro-industrial band)
• Battery (novel series), by Atsuko Asano
• "Battery" (song), by Metallica
• Battery 9, a South African music project
• Drum kit, sometimes called a battery

Other uses

• Battery (also stamp battery or stamp mill), a type of mill that crushes material by pounding
• Battery (baseball), collectively, the pitcher and catcher
• Battery cage, a confinement system for egg-laying chickens
• Battery (chess), a playing tactic
• Battery Energy Drink
• Battery position, a stage of operation of a firearm action

See also

• The Battery (disambiguation)