Pylon
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Pylon may refer to:
Structures
- Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple or Christian cathedral
- Aircraft pylon, an external mount for equipment such as engines and weapons
- Electricity pylon, a steel lattice tower used to support an overhead power line
- Traffic pylon, a cone-shaped marker that is placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic
- Pylon, a support tower structure for suspension bridges or highways
Entertainment
- Pylon (novel), a 1935 novel by William Faulkner
- Pylon (band), a rock band from Athens, Georgia, US
- Pylon (album), a 2015 album by Killing Joke
- Pylon, a fictional Protoss building in StarCraft
Other uses
- Pylons project, a set of open source web application frameworks written in Python
- Pylon turn, a flight maneuver in which an aircraft banks into a circular turn around a fixed spot on the ground
- Pylon, an orange marker designating a corner of an American football end zone