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Contents 1 Places 2 In entertainment 3 Other uses

Battery may refer to:

• Battery (electricity), an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage, either individually linked or individually linked and housed in a single unit
  • See List of battery types for links to electrical batteries
  • Battery (vacuum tube), early form of battery
  • Battery room, a facility used to house batteries for large-scale backup power systems
• 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
  • Out-of-battery, the discharge of a weapon before the action has returned to the normal firing position

[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, a 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] In entertainment

• Battery (song), a 1986 song by Metallica
• Battery (band), an American hardcore band
• The Battery (film), a 2007 Japanese film
• Battery (novel series), by Atsuko Asano
• Battery 9, a South African music project
• Drum kit, sometimes called a "battery"
• A section within a modern marching drumline

[edit] Other uses

• Battery (drink), a brand of beverage
• Battery (baseball), collectively, the pitcher and catcher
• Battery cage, a confinement system for egg-laying chickens
• Battery (chess), a tactic consisting of placing two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
• "Battery" (also "stamp battery" or stamp mill), a type of mill that crushes material by pounding

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