Battery most often refers to:

  • Electric battery, a device that provides electrical power
  • Battery (crime), a crime involving unlawful physical contact

Battery may also refer to:

==Energy source== <!--common use, at the top-->

  • Battery indicator, a device which gauges the state of charge for electronics
  • Energy storage, including batteries that are not electrochemical
  • List of battery types

==Law== <!--common use, at the top-->

  • Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact

Military and naval uses

  • Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces
  • Main battery, the primary weapons of a warship
  • Secondary battery (artillery), the smaller guns on a warship
  • Battery, a "ready-to-fire" position of a cartridge in a firearm action

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Battery (electro-industrial band)
  • Battery (hardcore punk band)
  • "Battery" (song), a song by Metallica from the 1986 album Master of Puppets
  • Drums, which have historically been grouped into ensembles called a battery
  • Drumline, the marching percussion section of a marching ensemble
  • Percussion section, of an orchestra or wind ensemble
  • Battery, a software music sampler by Native Instruments

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Battery (chess), a formation where two pieces on the same file, rank or diagonal (usually rooks and queens) attack the same square
  • Battery (novel series), by Atsuko Asano
  • Batterie (ballet), a term for jumps in ballet in which the legs open slightly sideways and close multiple times
  • Battery Records (disambiguation), the name of several record labels

Places

  • Battery Island, Tasmania, Australia
  • Battery Park (disambiguation), the name of several places
  • Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia

Other uses

  • Battery (baseball), the pitcher and catcher collectively
  • Battery, or stamp mill, a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding
  • Battery (drink), a brand of energy drinks in Finland
  • Battery Ventures, an investment firm

See also

  • The Battery (disambiguation)
  • Battery Building, the Simmons Hardware Company Warehouse in Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
  • Battery cage, a confinement system for egg-laying chickens (battery hens)