Pole may refer to:

• A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g:
  • Barber's pole, advertising a barber shop;
  • Telephone poles
  • Telegraph poles
  • Totem poles
  • Lampposts
  • Poles used in sporting and other activities:
    • Spinnaker pole, used in sailing;
    • The pole used for pole vaulting
    • Ski poles
    • Pole dancing
    • 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

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, 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
• Poles, people inhabiting the country of Poland
• Orbital pole, on the celestial sphere
• Polar, a town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States

In 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
• Chemical polarity, describing how polar or non-polar a chemical bond is
• The Polar coordinate system, points are given by an angle and a distance from the pole
• 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

Pole is also 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

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 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

See also

• Axle
• Rod
• Shaft
• Quarterstaff
• Club

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