Baton
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Baton may refer to:
Stick-like objects
[edit]- Baton, a type of club
- Baton (law enforcement)
- Baston (weapon), a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts
- Baton charge, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people
- Baton (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance
- Baton (military), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
- Baton (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race
- Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry
- Baton twirling, a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling in competitions, etc.
- Baton, a smaller version of a baguette
- Baton, in stick juggling, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks)
- Baton, another word for a batonette, a culinary knife cut
- Batons, in the keyboard of a carillon, the stick-like keys used to play the bells
- Batons (suit), one of the four suits of playing card in the standard Latin deck
- Suit of wands, Batons in the tarot card
Other uses
[edit]- BATON, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States to secure all types of classified information
- Baton Bob, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia
- Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster, now owned by CTVglobemedia
- Baton Broadcasting System, a defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting Inc.
- Baton Bunny, a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Looney Tunes series produced in 1958
- BATON Overlay or Balanced Tree Over-lay Network, a distributed tree structure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems
- Baton Records, a record label
- Baton River, a river in the Tasman District of New Zealand