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Pool may refer to:
Pools of water
- Swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest and deepest is the Olympic-size swimming pool.[citation needed] A pool can be built either above or in the ground, and from materials such as metal, plastic,, an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
- Reflecting pool A reflecting pool or reflection pool is a structure often used in memorials. It generally consists of a shallow pool of water, usually quite calm. A design with edges being slightly deeper than the center of the pool is often used to suppress wave formation, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
- Tide pool Tide pools are rocky pools by oceans that are filled with seawater. Many of these pools exist as separate entities only at low tide, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
- Plunge pool A Plunge pool can be a natural hydrologic Fluvial landform feature or a constructed recreational garden feature, a small, deep body of water
- Stream pool A stream pool, in hydrology, is a stretch of a river or creek in which the water depth is above average and the stream velocity is quite low. Such pools can be important for juvenile fish habitat, especially where many stream reaches attain high summer temperatures and very low flow dry season characteristics. A stream pool may be bedded in, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream
Sports and gambling
Geography
- River Pool (London), a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
- River Pool, Cumbria, a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin
- Pool, Cornwall, in England
- Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England
- Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
- Pool, West Virginia, in the United States
Computing
Other uses
See also
- Gene pool In population genetics, a gene pool is the complete set of unique alleles in a species or population, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
- Winter Pool, a part of the admissions process for Cambridge University
- Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water
- Pool Group The POOL Group were a trio of interwar period intellectuals, artists, filmmakers and poets consisting of Hilda Doolittle, Kenneth Macpherson and Bryher . Their work has been spoken of reverently by not only poetry and film historians but also by scholars of mysticism, feminism, psychoanalysis and LGBT history. They are perhaps best known for, a trio of inter-war experimental artists and film-makers
- Pool of London Originally, the Pool of London was the stretch of the River Thames forming the south side of the City of London. The term was later used more generally to refer to the stretch of the river in between London Bridge and Rotherhithe, which constituted the farthest reach that could be navigated by a tall-masted vessel. It therefore became a key part, a stretch of the River thames
- Poole (disambiguation)
- Poel Poel or Poel Island (German: Insel Poel)), is an island in the Baltic Sea. It builds 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 gulf known as the Bay of Mecklenburg, which Wismar Bay enters in to. Insel Poel thus forms on its northern, an island in the Baltic Sea
- Poul Poul is a masculine given name and is the Danish equivalent to the English Paul. Notable people with the name include:, a given name
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Pools probed after swimmers sickened by chlorine - Los Angeles Times (blog) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:48:00 GMT+00:00
probed after swimmers sickened by chlorine Los Angeles Times (blog) Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is calling for a thorough investigation of all county swimming pools after more than two dozen swimmers at an ... Arcadia pool remains closed as supervisors order safety reviews Pasadena Star-News Antonovich wants public pools checked Inland Valley Daily Bulletin