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Battery
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Battery may refer to:
Energy source[edit source | edit]
- Battery, an 18th and 19th century term for a number of capacitors or Leyden jars connected in parallel
- Electric battery, electrochemical cells that transform chemical energy into electricity
- Mechanical battery, a way of storing energy by mechanical means:
- Flywheel energy storage, which stores rotational kinetic energy
- Gravity battery, which stores gravitational potential energy
Law[edit source | edit]
- Battery (crime), a criminal offense
- Battery (tort), intentional harmful, or offensive contact
- Domestic battery, a type of domestic violence
Military or firearms[edit source | edit]
- Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces
- Main battery, the primary guns on a warship
- Secondary battery, the smaller guns on a warship
- Battery position, a stage of operation of a firearm action
Places[edit source | edit]
United States[edit source | edit]
- Battery Park (Burlington, Vermont), a public park overlooking Lake Champlain
- The Battery (Manhattan) (formerly known as Battery Park), a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor
Elsewhere[edit source | edit]
- Battery Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Battery Point, Tasmania
- Sultan Battery, in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India
Arts, entertainment and media[edit source | edit]
Music[edit source | edit]
Groups[edit source | edit]
- Battery (electro-industrial band), from Bennington, Vermont
- Battery (hardcore punk band), from Washington, D.C.
Other uses in music[edit source | edit]
- Battery, a collective term for drums, cymbals, and other percussion
- Drum kit, sometimes called a battery
- Marching percussion, also called the battery, in a modern drumline
- Battery, term for a collection of sampled percussion sounds for use in a digital audio workstation (DAW); sometimes also inclusive of synthesized bass rhythms
- Native Instruments Battery, a specific product of this sort, sometimes referred to simply as Battery
- "Battery" (song), by Metallica
- Battery 9, a South African music project
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit source | edit]
- Battery (chess), a playing tactic
- Battery (novel series), by Atsuko Asano
Other uses[edit source | edit]
- Battery (baseball), collectively, the pitcher and catcher
- Battery, stamp battery, or stamp mill, a type of mill that crushes material by pounding
- Battery Building, a nickname for this historic The Simmons Hardware Company Warehouse, located in Sioux City, Iowa that is on the National Register of Historic Places
- Battery cage, a confinement system for egg-laying chickens
- Battery Energy Drink, an energy drink made in Finland
See also[edit source | edit]
- Secondary battery (disambiguation)
- The Battery (disambiguation)
- Battery regenerator
- All pages with titles beginning with Battery
- All pages with titles containing Battery
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