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• 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 pieces
  • A piece is "in battery" when it is loaded and ready to fire
  • A piece is "out of battery" if it is not ready to fire
• An array of similar things, e.g. "Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress."
• Battery (electricity), an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage
  • Battery electric vehicle.
• Battery farming, a term for industrial agriculture
• Battery (baseball), in baseball jargon, refers collectively to the pitcher and catcher.
• In chess, a Battery consists of two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal.

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Placenames

Several places are named for the historical locations of coastal defense artillery batteries:

• Battery Park (New York), 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
• Sultan's Battery, Wynad District, Kerala State, India.

Battery Park (to New Yorkers, The Battery) is a 21-acre (8. ... Battery Park City is a 90 acre (0. ... The memorial at Battery Park Battery Park is a public park overlooking Lake Champlain at the western end of downtown Burlington, Vermont. ... The Battery, which includes a park known as White Point Gardens, is a landmark promenade in Charleston, South Carolina. ... Battery Point is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. ... Sulthan Bathery (formerly called Ganapathivattom) is a small town in Wayanad district of Kerala, India. ...

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

Battery is the opening track of Metallicas 1986 album Master of Puppets. ... Battery is a band partially responsible for the rebirth of Washington DC hardcore. ... Battery 9 (pronounced, in Afrikaans, as Battery Nege), an industrial music project from Johannesburg, South Africa, is the brainchild of Paul Riekert, who writes, plays and records the music. ... 2003 Daewoo Kalos hatchback The Chevrolet Aveo is a subcompact car built by Korean GM Daewoo, a subsidiary of General Motors. ... Auburn University tenors warm up A drumline or drum line is a group of percussion instruments usually played as part of a marching ensemble. ...

Others

• BATTERY, (1981) a play by Daniel Therriault, published by Broadway Play Publishing
• Battery (drink), a brand of beverage
• Battery, a Japanese novel series by Asano Atsuko; a manga series of it is currently being released
  • Battery, a 2007 Japanese movie based on the novel series of the same name

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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. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Penis[1], Englisc by its speakers) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... Remains of a battery of English cannon from Youghal, County Cork. ...

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