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A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel I-beams, joined by tie-bolts, and held apart by a slab of concrete. It was invented by Adelaide Electric...

pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph post, depending on its application. A Stobie pole is...

In geometry, a pole and polar are respectively a point and a line that have a unique reciprocal relationship with respect to a given conic section. Polar...

The north magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic north pole, is a point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic...

The north and south celestial poles appear permanently directly overhead to observers at Earth's North Pole and South Pole, respectively. As Earth spins...

In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest and most difficult to access location in a given landmass, sea, or topographical feature, category...

90°N 0°E / 90°N 0°E / 90; 0 The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in...

A barber's pole is a type of sign used by barbers to signify the place or shop where they perform their craft. The trade sign is, by a tradition dating...

motorsports race, the pole position is usually the best and "statistically the most advantageous" starting position on the track. The pole position is usually...

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite...

the celestial poles. On Earth, a pole star would lie directly overhead when viewed from the North or the South Pole. Currently, Earth's pole stars are Polaris...

Pole to Pole with Michael Palin is an eight-part television documentary travel series made for the BBC, and first broadcast on BBC1 in 1992. The presenter...

Earth's surface. In contrast, the magnetic poles of the actual Earth are not antipodal; that is, the line on which they lie does not pass through Earth's...

collars. The pole is fixed to a base for support with a u-bolt. The poles were used in the construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in 1872,...

intersection of the normal line and the sphere is the pole. A single pole is not enough to fully determine the orientation of an object: the pole stays the same if...

J-pole antenna is an end-fed omnidirectional half-wave antenna that is matched to the feedline by a shorted quarter-wave parallel transmission line stub...

are also widely used. The terms pole and throw are also used to describe switch contact variations. The number of "poles" is the number of electrically...

the line by 20 a n   dB {\displaystyle 20a_{n}\ {\text{dB}}} per decade. At every value of s where ω = y n {\displaystyle \omega =y_{n}} (a pole), decrease...

overhead form is usually called a high line. A variant of a high line, used to tie a single horse, is a horizontal pole attached high on the side of a horse...

Pole sitting is the practice of sitting on top of a pole (such as a flagpole) as a test of endurance. A small platform is typically placed at the top of...