Pole
Pole could mean:
Geography
- Geographical pole, on the axis of a rotating body
- North Pole, on Earth, in the Arctic
- South Pole, on Earth, in the Antarctic
- Third Pole (Kashmir), the largest glacier outside the polar regions
- Poles, people from the country of Poland
Things
- A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g.:
- Utility pole, such as a telephone pole or telegraph pole
- Barber's pole, advertising a barber shop
- Poles used in sporting and other activities:
- Spinnaker pole, used in sailing
- The pole used for pole vaulting
- Ski pole, used to help balance when skiing
- Pole position, in motorsport
- The contacts in a switch
- A unit of length also known as a rod
- Walking stick sometimes called a walking pole
Science and mathematics
- Magnetic pole
- One "half" of a dipole
- 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
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