Battery or batterie most often refers to: *

Electric battery An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices. When a battery is supplying power, its positive Terminal (electronics), terminal is the ...

, a device that provides electrical power *

Battery (crime) Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more gen ...

, a crime involving unlawful physical contact Battery may also refer to:

Energy source

Battery indicator {{One source, date=October 2023 A battery indicator (also known as a battery gauge) is a device or software which gives information about a battery. This will usually be a visual indication of the battery's state of charge. It is particularly im ...

, a device which gauges the state of charge for electronics *

Energy storage Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time to reduce imbalances between energy demand and energy production. A device that stores energy is generally called an Accumulator (energy), accumulator or Batte ...

, including batteries that are not electrochemical *

List of battery types This list is a summary of notable electric battery types composed of one or more electrochemical cells. Three lists are provided in the table. The primary (non-rechargeable) and secondary (rechargeable) cell lists are lists of battery chemistry. ...

Law

Battery (tort) In common law, battery is a tort falling under the umbrella term 'trespass to the person'. Entailing unlawful contact which is directed and intentional, or reckless (or, in Australia, negligently) and voluntarily bringing about a harmful or offen ...

, a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact

Military and naval uses

Artillery battery In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to f ...

, an organized group of artillery pieces **

Main battery A main battery is the primary weapon or group of weapons around which a warship is designed. As such, a main battery was historically a naval gun or group of guns used in volleys, as in the broadsides of cannon on a ship of the line. Later, th ...

, the primary weapons of a warship **

Secondary battery (artillery) Secondary armaments are smaller, faster-firing weapons that are typically effective at a shorter range than the main battery, main (heavy) weapons on military systems, including battleship- and cruiser-type warships, tanks/armored personnel c ...

, the smaller guns on a warship * Battery, a position of a cartridge in a

firearm action In firearms terminology, an action is the functional mechanism of a breechloading firearm that handles (loads, locks, fires, extracts, and ejects) the ammunition cartridges, or the method by which that mechanism works. Actions are technically ...

Arts and entertainment

Music

Battery (electro-industrial band) Battery was an American electro-industrial trio based in San Francisco. It consisted of vocalist Maria Azevedo and musicians Evan Sornstein and Shawn Brice. They released four albums on COP International between 1993 and 1998 before disbanding. ...

Battery (hardcore punk band) Battery was an American straight edge youth crew hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C. that was active from 1990 until 1998 and re-formed for a brief reunion in 2012. They toured on numerous occasions around both the United States and Europe ...

* "Battery" (song), a song by Metallica from the 1986 album ''Master of Puppets'' *

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, which have historically been grouped into ensembles called a battery **

Drumline Marching percussion instruments are percussion instruments (usually drums, such as snare, bass, and tenor drums) specially designed to be played while moving. This is achieved by attaching the drum(s) to a special harness (also called a carrier ...

, the marching percussion section of a marching ensemble **

Percussion section The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band. It includes most percussion instruments and all unpitched instruments. The percussion section is itself divided into three subsections: * Pitched percus ...

, of an orchestra or wind ensemble * Battery, a software music sampler by

Native Instruments Native Instruments is a German company that develops, manufactures, and supplies music software and hardware for music production, sound design, performance, and DJing. The company's corporate headquarters and main development facilities are lo ...

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Battery (chess) A battery in chess is a formation that consists of two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal. It is a tactic involved in planning a series of captures to remove the protection of the opponent's king, or to simply gain in the exchange ...

, a playing tactic * ''Battery'' (novel series), by Atsuko Asano *

Battery Records (disambiguation) Battery Records may refer to the following record labels: * Battery Records (hip hop), started by Neil Levine under Zomba Label Group, launched mid-2008 by Sony BMG Music Entertainment * Battery Records (dance) Battery Records was an American re ...

, the name of several record labels * The Battery (disambiguation)#Films, the name of two films

Places

The Battery (Manhattan) The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. The park is bounded by Battery Place on the north, with Bowling Green to the northeast, S ...

, or Battery Park, New York, U.S. *

The Battery (disambiguation) The Battery refers to: Places * The Battery (Charleston), South Carolina, United States *The Battery (Manhattan) The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City f ...

, the name of several places *

Battery Island The Battery Island, part of the Passage Group within the Furneaux Group, is a granite island, located in Bass Strait south of Cape Barren Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. Fauna Recorded breeding seabird and wader species incl ...

, Tasmania, Australia *

Battery Park (disambiguation) Battery Park is a park located at "The Battery", the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York, where artillery batteries once existed. Battery Park or "The Battery" may also refer to: Places * Battery Park (Delaware), also called "The Battery" ...

, the name of several places *

Battery Point, Tasmania Battery Point (; ) is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is immediately south of the central business district. It is in the Local Government Areas of Tasmania, local government area of City of Hobart. Battery Point is name ...

, Australia

Other uses

Battery (baseball) In baseball, the battery is the pitcher and the catcher, who may also be called batterymen, or batterymates in relation to one another. History Origins of the term The use of the word 'battery' in baseball was first coined by Henry Chadwick ...

, the pitcher and catcher collectively * Battery, or

stamp mill A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of Mill (grinding), mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than Mill (grinding), grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking materia ...

, a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding *

Battery (drink) Battery is a brand of energy drinks produced by the Finnish brewery Sinebrychoff. Their stimulating effects are based on coffee and guarana extracts as well as taurine. Sinebrychoff is part of the international brewery group Carlsberg Group, Carls ...

, a brand of energy drinks in Finland *

Battery Ventures Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm. Founded in 1983, the firm makes venture-capital and private-equity investments in markets across the globe from offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Israel and Lond ...

, an investment firm *

, a formation where two pieces on the same file, rank or diagonal (usually rooks and queens) attack the same square