Pool
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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
- Pool (cue sports) Pool, also known as pocket billiards, is the general term for a family of cue sports played on a pool table with six receptacles called pockets along the rails, into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play, a group of games played on a pool table
- Pool (poker) or pot, money wagered during a single hand of poker
- Pool play or group stages, the round robin stage of many sporting championships
- Pool betting Parimutuel betting is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house "take" or "vig" are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets. In some countries it is known as the Tote after the totalisator which calculates and displays bets or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
- Betting pool A betting pool, 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 , and then make a selection on some outcome, usually related to sport. In an informal game, the vig is usually quite small or non-existent, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
- Football pool, an association football (soccer) betting pool
- Betting pool A betting pool, 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 , and then make a selection on some outcome, usually related to sport. In an informal game, the vig is usually quite small or non-existent, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
- Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery
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
- Pool (computer science), a set of initialised resources that are kept ready to use
- Connection pool, a cache of database connections maintained by the database
- Object pool pattern, a pattern to construct sets of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
- Memory pool Memory pools, also called fixed-size-blocks allocation, allow dynamic memory allocation comparable to malloc or C++'s operator new. As those implementations suffer from fragmentation because of variable block sizes, it can be impossible to use them in a real time system due to performance. A more efficient solution is preallocating a number of, a dynamic memory allocation method
- Memory Pool System, a memory management system
- Thread pool pattern, a programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks
Other uses
- Pool (surname), a surname (and list of people with the surname)
- Pool (album), an album by John Zorn
- The Pool (game), a role-playing game by James V. West
- The Pool (2007 film), a film by Chris Smith
- The Pool (play), a 2006 play by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth
- The Pool (2009 film), a 2009 film adaptation of the play
- Pooling (resource management) Pooling is a resource management term that refers to the grouping together of resources for the purposes of maximizing advantage and/or minimizing risk to the users. The term is used in many disciplines, grouping together of resources or effort
- Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
- Press pool Press pool refers to a group of news gathering organizations pooling 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 or use it as they see fit. In the case of print reporters, a written pool report is distributed to all members. A pool spray is a brief photo, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
- Egyptian pool, a water symbol used in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
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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