Tower (disambiguation) explained

A tower is a tall human-made structure.

Tower may also refer to:

Types of towers

• Air traffic control tower
• Bell tower
• Cell tower, a cellular telephone communications site
• Clock tower
• Computer tower
• Conning tower
• Cooling tower
• Drop tower, an amusement park ride
• Fire lookout tower
• Fortified tower
• Interlocking tower or control cabin, directs railroad traffic
• Lattice tower or truss tower
• Martello tower, a small defensive fort
• Office tower
• Peel tower, a small fortified keep or tower house
• Radio tower
• Siege tower or breaching tower
• Telecommunications tower (disambiguation)
• Television tower
• Tower houses in the Balkans, tower houses built in the Balkans
• Transmission tower, used for electric power transmission
• Watchtower, a type fortification used in many parts of the world
• Water tower

Places

Geography

• Tower (ward), ward of the City of London, England
• Tower, County Cork, Ireland
• Tower, Michigan, United States
• Tower, Minnesota, United States
• Tower Branch, a stream in Pennsylvania, United States

Buildings with the name

• Tower of London, also known as "The Tower"
• Towers (Boston University), a dormitory at Boston University
• Trump Tower, a mixed use commercial and residential building in New York City

People

• Tower (surname), also Towers (surname)

Arts, entertainment, media and sports

Fictional entities

• Tower (Code Lyoko), element of virtual world in animated TV series
• Tower (comics), a Marvel Comics character

Music

• Tower (album), an album by the Finnish rock band Circle featuring Verde
• "Towers", a song by Little Mix
• Towers..., 1998 EP by Burning Witch

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Tower (2012 Canadian film), directed by Kazik Radwanski
• Tower (2016 film), about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin
• "Towers", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

Sports

• Hamburg Towers, German basketball team
• London Towers, former English basketball team

Brands and enterprises

• Alton Towers, a theme park and resort located in Staffordshire, England
• Tower Comics
• Tower International
• Tower Records (music retailer)
• Tower Records (record label)
• TOWER Software
• Towers Department Stores, Canada
• Tower Semiconductor, Israel

Mathematics

• Tower of fields, a sequence of field extensions
• Tower of objects, in category theory
• Tower of powers, nested exponentiation

Organizations

• Hamburg Towers, German basketball club
• Princeton Tower Club, an eating club at Princeton University
• Tower Transit, a bus operating company in London since 2013 owned by Transit Systems
• Tower Transit Singapore, a bus operating company in Singapore since June 2016 owned by Transit Systems

Other uses

• Tower (typeface)

See also

• List of leaning towers
• Tall buildings in London
• The Tower (disambiguation)
• The Towers (disambiguation)
• Tower blocks in Great Britain
• Tower City (disambiguation)