POLE

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'Pole' may refer to:

Contents

Things

Geography

Science and mathematics

People

As a surname

See also

Things

★ A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g:

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★ Barber's pole, advertising a barber shop;

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★ Danish pole, a circus prop;

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★ Firemen's pole, a wooden pole or a metal tube or pipe installed between floors in fire stations

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★ Lamppost, a raised source of light on the edge of a road

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★ Totem pole, monumental sculptures carved from great trees

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★ Utility pole, also called a telephone pole, telegraph pole or power pole, a pole that carries utility wires

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★ Poles used in sporting and other activities:

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★ Dance pole, a pole used for pole dancing

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★ Maypole, a tall wooden pole with ornaments, like ribbons, that is danced around

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★ Pole bending, a rodeo event that involves riding a horse around six poles arranged in a line

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★ Pole vaulting pole, a pole used for pole vaulting

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★ Pole-sitting pole, a pole used for pole sitting, which is the practice of sitting on a pole for extended lengths of time

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★ Ski pole, a pole used by skiers to improve balance, speed and acceleration

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★ Spinnaker pole, a spar used in sailboats to help support and control a variety of headsails, particularly the spinnaker

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★ Trekking pole, also called hiking sticks or hiking poles, a pole used for hiking

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★ Pole position, in motorsport, the position at the front of the grid

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★ The contacts in a switch

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★ Pole (Venezuela) (Polo), a political party in Venezuela

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★ Rod (unit), a unit of length equal to 11 cubits, 5.0292 meters or 16.5 feet

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★ Festivus pole, a pole used in the celebration of Festivus that is traditionally made of aluminum

Geography

★ Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins

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★ North Pole, the northernmost point on the surface of the Earth, where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

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★ Polar circle, a circle of latitude where the sun is above and below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year

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★ Polar climate, the climate of the polar regions, characterized by a lack of warm summers

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★ Polar region, the region within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic

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★ South Pole, the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

★ Magnetic pole

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★ Magnetic North Pole, the shifting point on the Earth to which the "north" end of a dipole magnet points

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★ Magnetic South Pole, the shifting point on the Earth to which the "south" end of a dipole magnet points

★ For concepts analogous to the Earth's geographic and magnetic poles on other planets and Solar System bodies, see Poles of astronomical bodies

★ Mount Everest, the third "top" of the Earth

★ Orbital pole, on the celestial sphere

★ Pole of inaccessibility, a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features which could provide access

★ Pole star, a visible star that is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation

Science and mathematics

★ One "half" of a dipole

★ Pole, a term used in electrical circuits referring to switches.

★ Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity

★ surface vertices of the eye's lens

★ Fetal pole, a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy

★ Landau pole, the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite

★ Monopole

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★ Magnetic monopole, a hypothetical particle that may be loosely described as a magnet with only one pole

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★ Monopole (mathematics), a connection over a principal bundle G with a section (the Higgs field) of the associated adjoint bundle

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★ Monopole (wine), an appellation controlled by a single winery

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★ Monopole antenna, a radio antenna that replaces half of a dipole antenna with a ground plane at right-angles to the remaining half

People

★ Poles, people inhabiting the country of Poland

★ Pole (musician), an electronic music artist named Stefan Betke

★ Sir William De La Pole, a commander in the war fighting for England against France

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

★ Wellesley Tudor Pole (1884-1964), English author

★ 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

See also

★ Axle

★ Club (weapon)

★ Poland

★ Quarterstaff

★ Rod (disambiguation)

★ Shaft