Pool may refer to:
Water pool
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Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming
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Reflecting pool
A reflecting pool, also called a reflection pool, is a water feature found in gardens, parks, and memorial sites. It usually consists of a shallow pool of water, undisturbed by fountain jets, for a reflective surface.
Design
Reflecting pools are ...
, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings
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Tide pool
A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore. Many of these pools exist as separate bodies of water only at low tide.
Many tide pool habitats are home to especially adaptable animals that ...
, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
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Salt pannes and pools, a water-retaining depression located within salt and brackish marshes
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Plunge pool
A plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake) is a deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall or shut-in. It is created by the erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at formation's base where the water impacts.Mars ...
, a small, deep body of water
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Stream pool
A stream pool, in hydrology, is a stretch of a river or stream in which the water depth is above average and the water velocity is below average.
Formation
A stream pool may be bedded with sediment or armoured with gravel, and in some cases t ...
, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream
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Spent fuel pool
Spent fuel pools (SFP) are storage pools (or "ponds" in the United Kingdom) for spent fuel from nuclear reactors. They are typically 40 or more feet (12 m) deep, with the bottom 14 feet (4.3 m) equipped with storage racks designed to hold ...
, a storage facility for used fuel rods from a nuclear reactor
Sports and gambling
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Pool (cards)
The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge, Hearts, Poker or Rumm ...
, the common pot for stakes or the stakes themselves in card games
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Pool (dominoes)
The following is a glossary of terms used in dominoes. Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous regional or local slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific, i.e. specific to one particular version of dominoes, but ap ...
, the stock or boneyard in dominoes
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Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
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Pool (poker) or
pot (poker)
The pot in poker refers to the sum of money that players wager during a single hand or game, according to the betting rules of the variant being played. It is likely that the word ''pot'' is related to or derived from the word ''jackpot''.
At th ...
, money wagered during a single hand of poker
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Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
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Betting pool
A betting pool, syndicate, sports lottery, sweep, or office pool if done at work, is a form of gambling, specifically a variant of parimutuel betting influenced by lotteries, where gamblers pay a fixed price into a ''pool'' (from which taxes and ...
, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
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Football pool
In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of association football matches taking place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, and may encou ...
, an association football (soccer) betting pool
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Pool play
A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:
# One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ...
or group stages, the round-robin stage of many sporting championships
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Singapore Pools
Singapore Pools (Private) Limited is a state-owned lottery subsidiary company in Singapore. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tote Board, it is the only operator that is legally allowed to run lotteries in Singapore.
History
Singapore Pools wa ...
, Singapore's sole legal lottery
Computing
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Pool (computer science), a set of initialized resources that are kept ready to use
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Connection pool
In software engineering, a connection pool is a cache of database connections maintained so that the connections can be reused when future requests to the database are required.
Connection pools are used to enhance the performance of executing comm ...
, a cache of database connections maintained by the database
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Memory pool
Memory pools, also called fixed-size blocks allocation, is the use of pools for memory management that allows dynamic memory allocation comparable to malloc or C++'s operator new. As those implementations suffer from fragmentation because ...
, a dynamic memory allocation method
** Memory Pool System, a memory management system by
Harlequin
Harlequin (; it, Arlecchino ; lmo, Arlechin, Bergamasque pronunciation ) is the best-known of the '' zanni'' or comic servant characters from the Italian '' commedia dell'arte'', associated with the city of Bergamo. The role is traditional ...
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Object pool pattern, a pattern to construct sets of initialized programming objects that are kept ready to use
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Thread pool pattern
In computer programming, a thread pool is a software design pattern for achieving concurrency of execution in a computer program. Often also called a replicated workers or worker-crew model, a thread pool maintains multiple threads waiting for ...
, a programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks
* Pooling layer, a form of non-linear down-sampling in
convolutional neural networks
In deep learning, a convolutional neural network (CNN, or ConvNet) is a class of artificial neural network (ANN), most commonly applied to analyze visual imagery. CNNs are also known as Shift Invariant or Space Invariant Artificial Neural Networ ...
Media
Music
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''Pool'' (John Zorn album), 1980
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''Pool'' (Porches album), 2016
* "Pool", a song by Paramore from ''
After Laughter''
Film
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''The Pool'' (2001 film), German horror film also known as ''Swimming Pool''
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''The Pool'' (2007 film), co-written and directed by Chris Smith
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''The Pool'' (2009 film), adaptation of the 2006 play
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''The Pool'' (2018 film), Thai survival thriller film
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''Pool'' (film) ( id, Kolam, link=no), a 2007 short film
Other
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''The Pool'' (play), by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth, 2006
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Pool (website)
ABC Pool was a website housed within the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as part of ABC Radio National's Multi-platform and Content Development department. The site was launched as a public beta in August 2008 and is a space where people ...
, a defunct Australian Broadcasting Corporation social media site
Places
England
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Pool, Cornwall
Pool ( kw, Poll) is a village in Carn Brea civil parish in west Cornwall, England. It is bypassed by the A30, on the A3047 between Camborne and Redruth, between Tuckingmill and Illogan Highway.
Facilities
Shops in the village include: a ...
, on the mainland, England
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Pool, Isles of Scilly, a
location
In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
in Cornwall, England
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Pool-in-Wharfedale
Pool-in-Wharfedale or Pool in Wharfedale, usually abbreviated to Pool, is a village and civil parish in the Lower Wharfedale area, north of Leeds city centre, north-east of Bradford, and east of Otley. It is in the City of Leeds metropolit ...
, in West Yorkshire, England
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Pool of London, a stretch of the River Thames
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River Pool (London)
The River Pool is a tributary of the River Ravensbourne. It is 5.1 km (3 miles) in length, and rises with its tributaries between Shirley and West Wickham in the London Borough of Croydon. It then flows northwards through Beckenham in the Lo ...
, a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
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River Pool, Cumbria
The River Pool is a river in the English county of Cumbria. The Pool rises at Waingap near the village of Crook and follows a southerly course, past the township of Underbarrow and into the Lyth Valley, where it joins the River Gilpin
The ...
, a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin
United States
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Pool, West Virginia, United States
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The Pool (Central Park) in Manhattan, New York, United States
Other
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Pool Department
Pool ( kg, Mpumbu, Nsundi, Mbula Ntangu) is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southeastern part of the country. It borders the departments of Bouenza, Lékoumou, and Plateaux. Internationally, it borders the Democratic Republic ...
, a division of the Republic of the Congo
Other uses
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Pool (surname), a surname (and list of people with the surname)
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Pooling (resource management)
In resource management, pooling is the grouping together of resources (assets, equipment, personnel, effort, etc.) for the purposes of maximizing advantage or minimizing risk to the users. The term is used in finance, computing and equipment man ...
, grouping together of resources or effort
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Press pool
A press pool, media pool or news pool is an arrangement wherein a group of news gathering organizations combine their resources in the collection of news. A pool feed is then distributed to members of the broadcast pool who are free to edit it ...
, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
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Secretarial pool A secretarial pool or typing pool is a group of secretaries working at a company available to assist any executive without a permanently assigned secretary. These groups have been reduced or eliminated where executives have been assigned responsibi ...
, group of secretaries available to assist executives
See also
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Poel
Poel () or Poel Island (german: Insel Poel), is an island in the Baltic Sea. It forms the natural northern and eastern boundaries of the Bay of Wismar on the German coast. The northern coast of the island is also on the south side of the large gul ...
, an island in the Baltic Sea
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Poole (disambiguation)
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Poul, a given name
* pooling, or
pool testing, in statistics
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