Baton

Baton may refer to:

In stick-like objects:

• Baton (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance
• Baton, a type of club (weapon)
  • 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 (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race
• Baton (symbol), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
• Baton twirling, a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling, and juggling in marching band and parade performances
• Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry
• Baton, a smaller version of a baguette
• Baton, in stick juggling, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks)
• Batons, in the keyboard of a carillon, the stick-like keys used to play the bells
• Baton, another name for the suit of wands in the Italian and French tarot decks
• Baton, another word for a batonette in the list of culinary knife cuts

In 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 Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana, USA

See also

• Batten (disambiguation)