Battery may refer to:

• Battery (electricity), an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage, or one such cell
• See List of battery types for links to electrical batteries
• Battery (crime), contact with another in a manner likely to cause bodily harm
• Battery (tort), intentional harmful or offensive contact with a person under civil law
• Artillery battery, an organized group of artillery pieces
• Battery (baseball), collectively the pitcher and catcher
• Battery cage, used in industrial agriculture
• In chess, a battery consists of two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal

Places

• The Battery, St. John's, Newfoundland
• Battery Island, Tasmania, Australia
• Battery Park or its location at the Battery in Manhattan, New York
• Battery Park City neighborhood north of Battery Park in Manhattan
• Battery Park (Burlington, VT)
• Battery Park (Charleston), South Carolina
• Battery Point, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart
• Sultan Battery, in the Wynad District, Kerala State, India

Music

• 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

Movies

• The Battery, a 2007 Japanese film

Others

• Battery (drink), a brand of beverage
• "Battery" (or "stamp battery") is a synonym for stamp mill

Etymology

"Battery" is derived from French batterie, from the verb French battre, Late Latin battuere = "to beat", of Germanic origin, compare Anglo-Saxon bēatan. Many of its modern uses arose as generalisations of the meaning artillery battery.