Poll

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Poll, polled or polling may refer to:

Figurative head counts

• Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions
  • Poll, an election
  • Polling places or the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections
  • Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion
  • Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote
  • Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
  • Election verification exit poll, survey take for election verification

Mathematics, science, and technology

• Poll (Unix), a Unix command
• Polling (computer science), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status
• Polling system, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order

Agriculture

• Poll (livestock), the top of an animal's head
• Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species
• Polling, livestock dehorning

People

• Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal
• Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee
• Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director
• Martin Poll (1922–2012), American film and television producer
• Max Poll (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist
• Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal

Places

Germany

• Poll (Cologne), a quarter of Cologne, Germany
• Polling, Mühldorf, a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria
• Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria

Austria

• Polling in Tirol, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol
• Polling im Innkreis, a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria

Other

• Poll (band), a Greek pop group of the 1970s
• Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
• Poling (metallurgy), removing oxides when refining a metal
• Polling (usually spelled poleing), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking
• Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries
• Poll tax (disambiguation), several related forms of taxation
• POLL, DNA polymerase lambda
• Deed poll, a legal document binding only to a single person or party
• Push poll, an interactive marketing technique designed to appear as an opinion poll

See also

• Pohl (disambiguation)
• Pohle (disambiguation)
• Pole (disambiguation)
• Pollard (disambiguation)
• Polly (disambiguation)
• Paul (disambiguation)