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Pole
Topics referred to by the same term
Pole or poles may refer to:
01People
- Polish people, 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
02Astronomy 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
- Pole star, a visible star approximately aligned with a celestial pole
- Geographical pole, two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface
03Arts and entertainment
- Pole, German electronic music artist
- Pole (album), by Pole, 2003
- Pole (Stockhausen), a 1970 composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen
- The Poles (band), a Canadian punk rock band
- Pole, a character in the game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
- Jill Pole, a character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series
04Places
- 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
05Science 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
- A component found in electric motors
06Objects
- pole, a kind of stick or rod (disambiguation)
- Chinese pole, a vertical pole used for acrobatics
- Flagpole
- Qutb, Sufi spiritual leader
- Pole vault
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