Pole

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Pole may refer to:

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[edit] Geography

  • Geographical pole, on the axis of a rotating body
    • North Pole, on Earth, the Arctic and Eskimos
    • South Pole, on Earth, Antarctica and penguins
    • Polar circle, either the Arctic or Antarctic Circle
    • Polar climate, climates characterised by cold, snowy weather
    • Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), a large white bear native to the Arctic
  • Magnetic pole
  • Adventurers and explorers count other "poles":
    • Pole of inaccessibility
    • Mount Everest, the third "top" of the Earth
  • Poles, people inhabiting the country of Poland
  • Orbital pole, on the celestial sphere
  • Polar, a town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States
  • The Pole Star, Polaris

[edit] Things

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


    • Poles used in sporting and other activities:
      • Spinnaker pole, used in sailing;
      • The pole used for pole vaulting
      • Ski poles
      • Trekking poles
      • Pole for punting
      • Maypoles
      • Pole dance
      • Pole-sitting
      • Pole bending (rodeo event)
  • Pole position, in motorsport
  • The contacts in a switch
  • Pole (musician), an electronic music artist named Stefan Betke
  • Pole (Polo) is a political party in Venezuela
  • A unit of length also known as a rod
  • Polarity in international relations

[edit] Science and mathematics

  • One "half" of a dipole
  • Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
  • The surface vertices of the eye's lens
  • Polar body, a cell structure found inside an ovum, produced during oogenesis
  • Polar curve (aviation), a graph of the rate of sink versus the horizontal speed of an aircraft
  • Polar membrane, either 1) a lipid bilayer membrane displaying polarity or 2) a specialized region of the bacterial cell membrane associated with the flagella (usually located at the cell poles).
  • Chemical polarity, describing how polar or non-polar a chemical bond is
  • In the polar coordinate system, points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole, or central point equivalent to the origin in the Cartesian coordinate system
  • Polar (cataclysmic variable), a strongly magnetic cataclysmic variable star system
  • Intermediate polar, a type of cataclysmic variable binary star system
  • The fetal pole is a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy
  • In physics, Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite
  • Monopole

[edit] 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
  • 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

[edit] Polar

May also refer to:

  • Polar Electro Oy, a manufacturer of heart rate monitors
  • Polar Air Cargo, a logistics company
  • Polar (artist), a Norwegian electronic music artist
  • Empresas Polar, a brewery in Venezuela
  • Polar Beverages, an independent soft drink bottling company based in Worcester, Massachusetts
  • The Polar Express, a 1985 children's book adapted as a feature film in 2004
  • Polar (album), the 2007 sophomore album by The High Water Marks
  • Polar Studios, once one of the most famous recording studios in Scandinavia
  • Polar Music, a Swedish record company founded in 1963
  • Polar Music Prize, an international music prize founded 1989 awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
  • Order of the Polar Star (Swedish Nordstjärneorden), a Swedish Royal order of chivalry
  • Polar Star, a 1989 crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's
  • POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study how pedestrians injuries in road traffic accidents
  • Polar Wrocław, a Polish football club based in Wrocław, Poland
  • the Crash Bandicoot character
  • Penis (slang)

[edit] See also