The Neolithic Transition. With the development of agriculture, humans began to radically transform. the environments in which they lived. A growing portion of humans became. sedentary cultivators who cleared the lands around their settlements and. controlled the plants that grew and the animals that grazed on them.
At common law, battery is the tort of intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them (e.g. a hat, a purse). Unlike assault, battery involves an actual contact.
battery. noun. 1. power unit The shavers come complete with batteries. 2. artillery, ordnance, gunnery, gun emplacement, cannonry They stopped beside a battery of abandoned guns. 3. range, lot, collection, variety, selection, array, assortment, gamut Crack is part of a battery of drugs used by addicts.atÂ·terÂ·y. n. pl. batÂ·terÂ·ies. 1. Electricity A device containing an electric cell or a series of electric cells storing chemical energy that can be converted into electrical energy, usually in the form of direct current.