Battery
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Battery or batterie most often refers to:
- Electric battery, a device that provides electrical power
- Battery (crime), a crime involving unlawful physical contact
Battery may also refer to:
Energy source
- Automotive battery, a device to provide power to certain functions of an automobile
- Battery indicator, a device which gauges the state of charge for electronics
- Energy storage, including batteries that are not electrochemical
- List of battery types
Law
- Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact
Military and naval uses
- Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces
- Main battery, the primary weapons of a warship
- Secondary battery (artillery), the smaller guns on a warship
- Battery, a position of a cartridge in a firearm action
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Battery (electro-industrial band)
- Battery (hardcore punk band)
- "Battery" (song), a song by Metallica from the 1986 album Master of Puppets
- Drums, which have historically been grouped into ensembles called a battery
- Drumline, the marching percussion section of a marching ensemble
- Percussion section, of an orchestra or wind ensemble
- Battery, a software music sampler by Native Instruments
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- Battery (chess), a playing tactic
- Battery (novel series), by Atsuko Asano
- Battery Records (disambiguation), the name of several record labels
- The Battery (disambiguation)#Films, the name of two films
Places
- The Battery (Manhattan), or Battery Park, New York, U.S.
- The Battery (disambiguation), the name of several places
- Battery Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Battery Park (disambiguation), the name of several places
- Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia
Other uses
- Battery (baseball), the pitcher and catcher collectively
- Battery, or stamp mill, a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding
- Battery (drink), a brand of energy drinks in Finland
- Battery Ventures, an investment firm
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Battery
- All pages with titles containing Battery
- Battery Building, the Simmons Hardware Company Warehouse in Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
- Battery cage, a confinement system for egg-laying chickens (battery hens)
Topics referred to by the same term
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