Pole
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Pole may refer to:
- A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g. Flagpole or Barber's pole
- Pole position, in motorsport
- The contacts in a switch
- Reginald Cardinal Pole (1500–1558), Archbishop of Canterbury
- A unit of length also known as a rod
In 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, where the sun don't shine (for at least 24 hours)
- Polar climate, cold with a chance of snow
- Poles, a people inhabiting the country of Poland
- Orbital pole, on the celestial sphere
In science and mathematics:
- one "half" of a dipole
- Pole (complex analysis)
- something to do with crystallography
- the surface vertices of the eye's lens
- Polar molecule, has oppositely charged ends
- Polar coordinate system, points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole
- Polar graph, a graph drawn using polar coordinates
Polar may also refer to:
- Polar Electro Oy, a manufacturer of heart rate monitors
- Polar Air Cargo, a logistics company
- Polar (artist), a Norvegian electronic music artist
- Empresas Polar, a brewery in Venezuela
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