Pole

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Pole or poles may refer to:

People

  • Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of Poland
  • Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist
  • Spot Poles (Spottswood Poles, 1887–1962), American baseball player
  • Pole Atanraoi-Reim (fl. from 1992), a Kiribati lawyer
  • Pole baronets, three titles in the UK

Astronomy and geography

  • Poles of astronomical bodies
    • Celestial pole, two points where the axis of rotation intersects the celestial sphere
    • Orbital pole, two points at the end of the orbital normal
    • North magnetic pole of Earth
    • South magnetic pole of Earth
  • Geographical pole, two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface
    • North Pole
    • South Pole

Arts and entertainment

  • Pole (album), by Pole, 2003
  • Pole (Stockhausen), a 1970 composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Pole, a character in the game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
  • Jill Pole, a character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series

Places

  • Pole, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
  • Pole, Botswana
  • Poles, former name of Hanbury Manor, Ware, England
  • Poles, a place in Highland council area, Scotland
  • Poles, former name of Hanbury Manor, Ware, England

Science and technology

  • Pole, or terminal (electronics)
  • Pole, in contact terminology of a switch
  • Pole (unit of length), or perch or rod, a unit of length of various historical definitions
  • Pole, either end of a magnet
  • Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
  • Pole, an element of perspective (geometry)
  • Pole and polar, in geometry
  • Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems (POLES), a world simulation model for the energy sector
  • POLE (gene), in humans

Objects

See also

Look up Pole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • All pages with titles beginning with Pole
  • All pages with titles containing Pole
  • Axle
  • Polar (disambiguation)
  • Polarity (disambiguation)
  • Polarization (disambiguation)
  • Pole position (disambiguation)
  • Pohl (disambiguation)
  • Pohle (disambiguation)
  • Pol (disambiguation)
  • Poll (disambiguation)
  • Pole star, a visible star approximately aligned with a celestial pole
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