Pool

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Pool may refer to:

Contents 1 Pools of water 2 Sports and gambling 3 Geography 4 Computing 5 Other uses 6 See also

[edit] Pools of water

• Swimming pool, an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
• Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
• Tide pool, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
• Plunge pool, a small, deep body of water
• Stream pool, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream

[edit] Sports and gambling

• Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
• Pool (poker) or pot, money wagered during a single hand of poker
• Betting pool, form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
• Pool betting, betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
• Pool play or group stages, round robin stage of many sporting championships
• Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

[edit] Geography

• River Pool (London), a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
• River Pool (Cumbria), a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin
• Pool, Cornwall, in England
• Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England
• Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
• Pool, West Virginia, in the United States

[edit] Computing

• Connection pool, cache of database connections maintained by the database
• Object pool, set of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
• Memory pool, dynamic memory allocation method
• Memory Pool System, memory management system
• Thread pool pattern, programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks

[edit] Other uses

• Pool (surname), a surname (and list of people with the surname)
• Pool (album), an album by John Zorn
• The Pool (game), a role-playing game by James V. West
• The Pool (2007 film), a film by Chris Smith
• The Pool (play), a 2006 play by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth
  • The Pool (2009 film), a 2009 film adaptation of the play
• Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
  • Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
  • Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
• Egyptian pool, a water symbol used in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

[edit] See also

• Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
• Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water
• Pool Group, a trio of inter-war experimental artists and film-makers
• Pool of London, a stretch of the River thames
• Poole (disambiguation)
• Poel, an island in the Baltic Sea
• Poul, a given name
• All pages with titles containing "pool"

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