Pole
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Pole may refer to:
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[edit] Things
- A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g:
- Barber's pole, advertising a barber shop;
- Firemen's poles
- Telephone poles
- Telegraph poles
- Totem poles
- Lampposts
- Poles used in sporting and other activities:
- Spinnaker pole, used in sailing;
- The pole used for pole vaulting
- Ski poles
- Trekking poles
- Maypoles
- Pole dance
- Pole-sitting
- Pole bending (rodeo event)
- Pole position, in motorsport
- The contacts in a switch
- Pole (musician), an electronic music artist named Stefan Betke
- Pole (Polo) is a political party in Venezuela
- A unit of length also known as a rod
- Polarity in international relations
[edit] Geography
- Geographical pole, on the axis of a rotating body
- North Pole, on Earth, the Arctic and Eskimos
- South Pole, on Earth, Antarctica and penguins
- Polar circle, either the Arctic or Antarctic Circle
- Polar climate, climates characterised by cold, snowy weather
- Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), a large white bear native to the Arctic
- Magnetic pole
- Adventurers and explorers count other "poles":
- Pole of inaccessibility
- Mount Everest, the third "top" of the Earth
- Poles, people inhabiting the country of Poland
- Orbital pole, on the celestial sphere
- Polar, a town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
- The Pole Star, Polaris
[edit] Science and mathematics
- One "half" of a dipole
- Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
- The surface vertices of the eye's lens
- Polar body, a cell structure found inside an ovum, produced during oogenesis
- Polar curve (aviation), a graph of the rate of sink versus the horizontal speed of an aircraft
- Polar membrane, either 1) a lipid bilayer membrane displaying polarity or 2) a specialized region of the bacterial cell membrane associated with the flagella (usually located at the cell poles).
- Chemical polarity, describing how polar or non-polar a chemical bond is
- In the polar coordinate system, points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole, or central point equivalent to the origin in the Cartesian coordinate system
- Polar (cataclysmic variable), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
- Intermediate polar, a type of cataclysmic variable binary star system
- The fetal pole is a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy
- In physics, Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite
- Monopole
[edit] As a surname
- Charles Morice Pole, 1st Baronet (1757–1830), English naval officer and colonial governor
- Dick Pole (born 1950), former Major League Baseball player and current coach
- Edward Tudor-Pole (born 1955), a British singer and actor
- Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, 6th Earl of Suffolk (1471/1472 - 1513)
- George Pole, Conservative Party (UK) member and activist, Chairman of the Conservative Monday Club 1970-2
- Jill Pole, a fictional character from C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series
- John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (1462/4-1487), eldest son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth of York
- John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1442-1491/2), known as the Trimming Duke, son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
- Margaret Pole (1473–1541), Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George Plantagenet (brother of Edward IV and Richard III of England)
- Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1330–1389)
- Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367–1415)
- Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394–1415)
- Reginald Cardinal Pole (1500–1558), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Richard de la Pole (died 1525 in Milan) was a pretender to the English crown
- William Pole (1814-1900), English engineer
- William de la Pole (1396-1450), English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, later Lord Chamberlain of England
- William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington GCH PC (1763–1845), British politician and elder brother of the Duke of Wellington
[edit] Polar
May also refer to:
- Polar Electro Oy, a manufacturer of heart rate monitors
- Polar Air Cargo, a logistics company
- Polar (artist), a Norwegian electronic music artist
- Empresas Polar, a brewery in Venezuela
- Polar Beverages, an independent soft drink bottling company based in Worcester, Massachusetts
- The Polar Express, a 1985 children's book adapted as a feature film in 2004
- Polar (album), the 2007 sophomore album by The High Water Marks
- Polar Studios, once one of the most famous recording studios in Scandinavia
- Polar Music, a Swedish record company founded in 1963
- Polar Music Prize, an international music prize founded 1989 awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- Order of the Polar Star (Swedish Nordstjärneorden), a Swedish Royal order of chivalry
- Polar Star, a 1989 crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's
- POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study how pedestrians injuries in road traffic accidents
- Polar Wrocław, a Polish football club based in Wrocław, Poland
- the Crash Bandicoot character
- Penis (slang)
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