Battery

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Contents 1 Electricity 2 Placenames 3 Music 4 Others 5 Etymology

Battery may refer to:

[edit] Electricity

• Voltaic Pile
• Battery (electricity), electrical battery.

[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
• Battery can also refer to a section within a modern marching drumline

[edit] Others

• Battery (crime)
• 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".

A drumline may be known as a battery because of the relation to "battre"- to beat or rythm