Pollard may refer to:
Places in the United States
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Pollard, Alabama, a town
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Pollard, Arkansas, a city
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Pollard, Kansas, an unincorporated community
People
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Pollard (surname) Pollard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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*A. J. Pollard (born 1941), English medieval historian
*Al Pollard (1928–2002), American football player
*Albert Pollard, (1869–1948), British historian of Tudor era
*Albert C ...
, a list of people with the surname
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Pollard Hopewell (between 1786 and 1789 – 1813), midshipman in the United States Navy
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Charles Pollard Olivier (1884–1975), American astronomer
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James Pollard Espy
James Pollard Espy (or the Storm King) (May 9, 1785 – January 24, 1860) was a U.S. meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Acadé ...
(1785–1860), American meteorologist
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Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (c. 1948–2022), Australian indigenous (Warlpiri people) artist
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Thomas Pollard Sampson (1875–1961), Australian architect
Flora and fauna
*Pollard, a tree affected by
pollarding
Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollarding during the 1st century BCE. The practice h ...
(cropping of the upper branches)
*Pollard, a deer which has cast its
antler
Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) Family (biology), family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally fo ...
s
*Pollard or
polled livestock
Polled livestock are livestock without horns in species which are normally horned. The term refers to both breeds and strains that are naturally polled through selective breeding and also to naturally horned animals that have been disbudded. Na ...
, hornless livestock of normally-horned species
*Pollard, the
European chub
''Squalius cephalus'', the common chub, European chub or simply chub, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This species is found in Europe where it freq ...
(''Squalius cephalus''), a freshwater fish
Mathematics
*Several algorithms created by British mathematician
John Pollard:
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Pollard's kangaroo algorithm
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Pollard's ''p'' − 1 algorithm
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Pollard's rho algorithm
Other uses
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Pollard (coin), a medieval coin made in Europe in imitation of the English penny, outlawed under Edward I
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''Pollard'' (novel), a novel by Laura Beatty
* Pollard, a mixture of fine
bran
Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the component of a Cereal, cereal grain consisting of the hard layersthe combined aleurone and Fruit anatomy#Pericarp layers, pericarpsurrounding the endosperm. Maize, Corn (maize) bran also includes the p ...
and a small amount of flour
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Pollard railway station, former station in Victoria, Australia
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Pollard script
The Pollard script, also known as Pollard Miao () or Miao, is an abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet and invented by Methodist missionary Sam Pollard. Pollard invented the script for use with A-Hmao, one of several Miao languages spoke ...
, a writing system devised in 1905 for the A-Hmao language
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