In law, wrongful physical touching of a person.
In testing, a series of two or more tests given to a person in roughly the same period, such as a series of achievement tests; also a group of standardized tests that have been developed and tested on the same general population, and so are considered comparable to one another. In law, battery is physical violence or contact that is offensive to and without the consent of the battered person. An adult may consent to such violence or contact, but since a minor child cannot legally give consent, such actions are to be considered battery, as in cases of child abuse. An unintentional action causing no severe harm is called simple battery, while intentional violence is termed aggravated battery. By contrast, assault is the threat of or sometimes an uncompleted attempt at injury or violence. Battery is often (though it need not be) preceded by threats; hence, the common phrase “assault and battery.”
By law, the illegal application of physical force to another person. Battery need not include force; a mere touch is sufficient. A person can commit battery indirectly, by striking the property of another, by administering poison or drugs to another, or by deliberately communicating a disease to another person. Battery is a crime that is related to but different from assault, which is a crime of attempted or threatened battery.
A tort in which the wrongdoing is the physical touching of another person without that person’s consent. The threat of such touching is called an assault. There does not have to be any physical harm for a battery to result in legal liability. Treating or performing surgery upon a patient without the patient’s consent, or going beyond the scope of the patient’s consent, is a battery.
A device for generating electric current by chemical action.
A power source comprising one or multiple cells is utilized to convert chemical, nuclear, thermal, or solar energy into electrical energy. This voltage supply facilitates the transformation of various forms of energy into usable electrical power.