All articles starting with B

Batter (cooking)

Batter (cooking): a semifluid flour-based mixture of flour, liquid, and often eggs, used for pancakes, cakes, and as a frying coating; distinct from dough by its higher water content.

Oct 20, 2026

Batterbee Mountains

The Batterbee Mountains are prominent mountains rising to 2,200 m on the west coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, overlooking George VI Sound, first sighted by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935.

Battered woman syndrome (BWS), or battered person syndrome, is a psychological pattern from persistent intimate partner violence, introduced by Lenore Walker in 1979; used in self-defense and duress defenses but absent from the DSM.

Batteries Not Included

Batteries Not Included is a 1987 American comic science fiction film directed by Matthew Robbins, in which tiny alien spaceships help New York apartment tenants resist a developer.

Battering ram

A battering ram is a siege engine, a heavy beam swung or pushed against gates and walls, used from Bronze Age Syria into the medieval period.

Battersea

Battersea is a district on the south bank of the Thames in Wandsworth, southwest London, formerly market gardens, transformed by railways from 1840, known for Battersea Park, Battersea Power Station, and Clapham Junction.

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home (Battersea) is a UK animal welfare charity founded in 1860 by Mary Tealby, rescuing and rehoming dogs and cats from three centres, with a non-selective intake policy and about £70m annual income.

Battersea Park

Battersea Park is an 83-hectare Grade II Victorian park on the south bank of the Thames in Wandsworth, London, opened in 1854, with a lake, Subtropical Garden, Festival Gardens site, Peace Pagoda, and children's zoo.

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station on the south bank of the Thames in Battersea, London, built in two stages between 1929 and 1955 for the London Power Company and closed in 1983.

Battersea Shield

The Battersea Shield is an Iron Age bronze shield facing in La Tène Celtic style, dredged from the Thames at Battersea in 1857 and held by the British Museum.

Battery

A battery is a device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy by an electrochemical reaction, invented in 1800 and divided into single-use and rechargeable classes.

Battery (crime)

Battery (crime): intentional harmful or offensive physical contact without consent, an intentional tort and general-intent crime; distinct from assault, merged into assault in 28 US states, six-month summary offense in England and Wales.

Battery 2030+

Battery 2030+ is a long-term European research initiative on future battery technologies, launched in March 2019, coordinated by Uppsala University, and funded through the EU's Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programs.

Battery and supervision

Battery and supervision are the paired central office functions that power an analog telephone line over 48 V DC and detect whether the phone is on-hook or off-hook.

Oct 21, 2026

Battery at Caer Mote

The Battery at Caer Mote is an unexcavated earthwork enclosure on Caer Mote ridge near Bothel, Cumbria, also called Caer Mote Enclosure; no record of artillery use, near a first-century AD Roman fort.

Battery cage

Battery cage: wire laying-hen cage smaller than an A4 sheet, holding four to five hens in stacked rows; also called barren or conventional cage. Banned in the EU since 2012 and Switzerland since 1996, still about 60% of world egg production.

Battery charge limiting

Battery charge limiting is the practice of capping a rechargeable lithium-ion battery's maximum state of charge below 100%, by firmware or operating-system software, to slow aging and extend battery life.

Battery charger

A battery charger is a device that restores energy to a rechargeable battery with controlled current, from USB adapters to DC fast chargers rated up to 500 kW.

Battery electric vehicle

A battery electric vehicle (BEV), or battery electric car, is a road vehicle with no internal combustion engine, powered by an electric motor drawing energy from an on-board traction battery.

Battery electrolyte

A battery electrolyte is the ion-conducting medium between a battery's two electrodes, carrying ions during charge and discharge, ranging from sulfuric acid to organic solvents.

Battery Electrolyte Genome

The Battery Electrolyte Genome is a computational screening project launched at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory around 2012 under Kristin Persson, calculating properties of thousands of candidate battery electrolyte molecules.

Battery management system

A battery management system (BMS) is an electronic system that monitors and controls a rechargeable battery to keep it safe, required in electric vehicles, grid storage, and portable equipment.

Battery Park City

Battery Park City is a 92-acre planned neighborhood on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, built on landfill along the Hudson River and managed by the Battery Park City Authority.

Battery Resourcers

Battery Resourcers was an American lithium-ion battery recycling company founded in 2015 as a Worcester Polytechnic Institute spinoff in Massachusetts, renamed Ascend Elements in January 2022.

Battery separator

A battery separator is a porous, insulating membrane between a battery cell's anode and cathode that prevents electronic contact while allowing ion transport, strongly affecting safety and cycle life.

Battery Studios

Battery Studios is a recording studio complex in Willesden, London, formerly Morgan Studios, renamed by Zomba Group in 1980; Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, The Kinks, and Adele recorded there, and it now faces a demolition planning application.

Battery swapping

Battery swapping is a way of recharging electric vehicles by exchanging a depleted battery for a charged one at a station in minutes, with the operator owning the batteries.

Battery500 Consortium

The Battery500 Consortium is a U.S. Department of Energy research program, led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 2016, developing 500 Wh/kg lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles.

Batti Gul Meter Chalu (बत्ती गुल मीटर चालू)

Batti Gul Meter Chalu (बत्ती गुल मीटर चालू) is a 2018 Hindi comedy-drama by Shree Narayan Singh starring Shahid Kapoor, about three Tehri friends fighting a 54-lakh inflated electricity bill in court; RT 25%.