Pylon

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Pylon may refer to:

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[edit] Structures

  • Aircraft pylon, a vertical structure used to mount external equipment such as engines and weapons ("stores") externally on an aircraft
  • Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple or Christian cathedral
  • Pylon, a support structure for suspension bridges or highways - see transportation support tower
  • Electricity pylon, or transmission tower, a steel lattice tower used to support an overhead power line

[edit] Marker

  • Traffic pylon, or traffic cone, a cone-shaped marker that is placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic
  • An orange marker designating one of four corners of an American football end zone

[edit] Entertainment

  • Pylon (band), a rock band from Athens, Georgia, USA named after the William Faulkner novel of the same name
  • Pylon (novel), a 1935 novel by the American author William Faulkner

[edit] Other

  • Pylons (web framework), an open source web application framework written in Python
  • Pylon Peak, a mountain in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
  • Pylon turn, a flight maneuver in which an aircraft banks into a circular turn around a fixed spot on the ground

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