From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up
baton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Baton may refer to:
Stick-like objects
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
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
See also
Topics referred to by the same term