Pole Explained

Pole or poles may refer to:

People

• Poles (people), another term for Polish 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

Astronomy 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
• Geographical pole, two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface
  • North Pole
  • South Pole

Arts and entertainment

• Pole (album), by Pole, 2003
• Pole (Stockhausen), a 1970 composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Pole, a character in the game Yie Ar Kung-Fu
• Jill Pole, a character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series

Places

• 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

Science 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

Objects

• pole, a kind of stick or rod (disambiguation)
• Chinese pole, a vertical pole used for acrobatics
• Qutb, Sufi spiritual leader

See also

• • • Axle
• Polar (disambiguation)
• Polarity (disambiguation)
• Polarization (disambiguation)
• Pole position (disambiguation)
• Pohl (disambiguation)
• Pohle (disambiguation)
• Pol (disambiguation)
• Poll (disambiguation)
• Pole star, a visible star approximately aligned with a celestial pole