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'''Battery''' may refer to:
*[[Battery (electricity)]], an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage; or one such cell
**[[Car battery]], a type of battery for use in automobiles and trucks
*Battery, the act of [[Injury|injuring]] another person in a manner likely to cause [[bodily harm]]:
**[[Battery (crime)]], the [[criminal]] definition
**[[Battery (tort)]], the [[Civil law (common law)|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 farm]]ing, 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.
===Placenames===
Several places are named either for the historical locations of coastal defense artillery batteries, or for the fancied appearance thereof:
*[[Battery Island]], Tasmania, Australia
*[[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
*[[Sultan Battery]], in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India
===Music===
*[[Battery (song)|''Battery'' (song)]], a 1986 song by Metallica
*[[Battery (band)]], an American hardcore band
*[[Battery 9]], a South African musical project
*[[Battery (drumline)]], a section within a modern marching drumline
===Others===
*[[Battery (drink)]], a brand of beverage
*"battery" (or "stamp battery") is a synonym for [[stamp mill]]
==Etymology==
"Battery" is derived from [[French language|French]] ''batterie'', from the verb French ''battre'', Late [[Latin]] ''battuere'' = "to [[wiktionary:beat|beat]]", of [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] origin, compare [[Old English language|Anglo-Saxon]] ''bēatan''. Many of its modern uses arose as generalisations of the meaning [[artillery battery]].
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