Pool may refer to:
Water pool
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Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable Human swimming, swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built ...
, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming
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Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings
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Tide pool, 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
Salt pannes and pools are water retaining depressions located within salt and brackish marshes. Pools tend to retain water during the summer months between high tides, whereas pannes generally do not. Salt pannes generally start when a mat of or ...
, a water-retaining depression located within salt and brackish marshes
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Plunge pool, a small, deep body of water
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Stream pool, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream
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Spent fuel pool, a storage facility for used fuel rods from a nuclear reactor
Sports and gambling
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Pool (cards), the common pot for stakes or the stakes themselves in card games
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Pool (dominoes), the stock or boneyard in dominoes
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Pool (cue sports)
Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the , into which balls are deposited. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". The WPA itself uses "pool-billiard" in it ...
, a group of games played on a pool table
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Pool (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''.
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pot (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker
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Pool betting
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 ...
or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
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Betting pool, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
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Football pool, an association football (soccer) betting pool
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Pool play or group stages, the round-robin stage of many sporting championships
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Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery
Computing
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Pool (computer science)
In computer science, a pool is a collection of resources that are kept, in memory, ready to use, rather than the memory acquired on use and the memory released afterwards. In this context, ''resources'' can refer to system resources such as file ...
, a set of initialized resources that are kept ready to use
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Connection pool, a cache of database connections maintained by the database
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Memory pool, a dynamic memory allocation method
** Memory Pool System, a memory management system by
Harlequin
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Object pool pattern
The object pool pattern is a software creational design pattern that uses a set of initialized objects kept ready to use – a "pool" – rather than allocating and destroying them on demand. A client of the pool will request an object from the po ...
, 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
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
''After Laughter'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Paramore. It was released on May 12, 2017, through Fueled by Ramen, as a follow-up to their self-titled album ''Paramore'' (2013). The album was produced by guitarist Taylor Yor ...
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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
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''The Pool'' (play), by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth, 2006
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Pool (website), a defunct Australian Broadcasting Corporation social media site
Places
England
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Pool, Cornwall, on the mainland, England
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Pool, Isles of Scilly, a
location in Cornwall, England
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Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England
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Pool of London
The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse.
Part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and later overseas goods—the wharves there were the ...
, a stretch of the River Thames
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River Pool (London), a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
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River Pool, Cumbria, a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin
United States
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Pool, West Virginia
Pool is an unincorporated community in southwestern Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along CR 41-7 just east of Route 41, south of the town of Summersville, the county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, se ...
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The Pool (Central Park)
North Woods and North Meadow are two interconnected features in the northern section of Central Park, New York City, close to the neighborhoods of the Upper West Side and Harlem in Manhattan. The North Woods, in the northwestern corner of the ...
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 o ...
, a division of the Republic of the Congo
Other uses
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, a surname (and list of people with the surname)
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Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
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Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
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Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
See also
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Poel, 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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