Bank (disambiguation)

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A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities.

Bank or banking may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

Bank (geography), a raised portion of seabed or sloping ground along the edge of a stream, river, or lake
Ocean bank (topography)
Ocean bank, a shallow area in a body of water
Stream bank or riverbank, a terrain alongside the bed of a river, creek, or stream

BANK (art collective), a 1990s London art collective
Bank Street College of Education, a private graduate school for Early Childhood Education in New York, NY, U.S.
Bank (diaper bank), organizations created for the purpose of distributing free diapers to parents and caregivers unable to afford diapers

Bank shot, a type of shot in basketball
Bank shot, a type of shot in cue sports
Citizens Bank Park or The Bank, a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Bank engine, a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train, usually to add haulage power over a short distance
Bank or roll, in aircraft flight dynamics, a rotation of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis
- Banked turn, a change of direction in which a vehicle inclines

Bank (fortification), a type of earthwork used in field defences or around early hillforts
Bank (surname)
Bank paper, thin paper
Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine
Data bank, a storage area for information in telecommunications
Elevator bank, a group of elevators in a building
Environmental mitigation or mitigation banking, government-regulated environmental offset projects
Memory bank, a logical unit of storage
Memory Bank (UK game show), a daytime gameshow which was shown on Five in the UK
Memory Banks (comic strip), a British comic strip
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a 1983 telemovie
Piggy bank, a device for money saving