Poll

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Poll may refer to:

• Opinion poll, a type of survey
• Polling station, a place where a voters cast their ballots
• The poll of a horse; that is, the area where the top of the head meets the neck.
• In fire alarms, polling devices to check for new conditions.
• In arboriculture, trimming a tree
• In equestrianism, polling is the illegal practice of hitting the horse on the legs.
• In metallurgy, polling is the refining of a crude metal made impure by its own oxides.
• In telecommunication, the term polling can mean:
  1. Network control in which the control station invites tributary stations to transmit in the sequence specified by the control station,
  2. In point-to-point or multipoint communication, the process whereby stations are invited one at a time to transmit,
  3. In automated HF radio systems, a technique for measuring and reporting channel quality.
  4. The sequential interrogation of devices for various purposes, such as avoiding contention, determining operational status, or determining readiness to send or receive data. Computer science shares this definition of the word.
• In computer science
  1. Actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. See Polling (computer science)
  2. The sending by an an application of a request to a managed node for information. For example, a ping is a poll requesting a response from another computer.

As a surname:

• Graham Poll, football (soccer) referee

Polling may refer to:

• Polling (Mühldorf), a town in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria.
• Mühldorf (Weilheim-Schongau), a town in the district of Weilheim-Schongau.

[edit] References

• Federal Standard 1037C
• MIL-STD-188