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Contents 1 Energy storage 2 Batteries, Environmental Regulation 3 Beating or battering 4 Organized groups 5 Placenames 6 Music 7 Others 8 Etymology

Battery may refer to:

[edit] Energy storage

• Battery (electricity), a device arraying electrolytic cells, or often used to mean one electrolytic cell

See also, List of battery types

There is a theory that "battery" in this sense, came from Persian botry = "bottle". Long before in Persia or Babylonia an electric battery may have been made in a bottle with some chemicals; but it is unlikely that this was known to the Europeans who first made and used electric batteries. The first electricity-related usage was "cell" for what is now called `a battery', and "battery of cells" for a linked chain of such "cells"; there is an obvious analogy from a battery of artillery guns.

[edit] Batteries, Environmental Regulation

• Battery Directive, European Union directive on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators

[edit] Beating or battering

• Battery (crime), physical contact which causes bodily harm
• Battery (tort), touching another person without lawful justification

[edit] Organized groups

• Artillery battery, a group of artillery pieces acting in concert
• Battery farming, a farming practice where hens are kept individually in small adjoining battery cages to lay eggs
• Drumline or battery in a marching band

[edit] Placenames

• Battery Park (New York), a former artillery fortification 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, major road in Raffles Place, Singapore

[edit] Music

• Battery (song), a 1986 song by Metallica
• Battery (band), an American hardcore band
• Battery 9, a South African musical project

[edit] Others

• Battery (drink), a brand of beverage
• "The battery", baseball jargon for a team's pitcher and catcher, considered as a unit
• "A battery of tests", an organized array of tests

[edit] Etymology

"Battery" is derived from French batterie, from the verb French battre, Late Latin battuere = "to beat", of Germanic origin, compare Anglo-Saxon bēatan.

The meaning "organized set of" came from misunderstanding the reference in "artillery battery".

The meaning "power storage" came from misunderstanding the reference in "battery of electrolytic cells" shortened in common usage to "battery".

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