Pylon

The term pylon usually refers to a truncated pyramid or tower or an object shaped like one. In common usage, the term "pylon" is generally taken to refer to any elongate support structure. Specific objects include:

  • An electricity pylon, part of an electric power transmission network (especially UK usage)
  • A traffic cone (American usage)
  • An orange marker designating one of four corners of an American football end zone
  • Support structures for suspension bridges or highways (American usage)
  • Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple
  • An Aircraft pylon, a vertical structure used to mount "stores" externally on an aircraft, often attached to a hardpoint

Other uses of the word Pylon:

  • Pylon (band), a 1980s new-wave band from Athens, Georgia, USA
  • Pylon (novel), a 1935 novel by William Faulkner
  • Pylon (StarCraft), a Protoss structure in the StarCraft computer game series
  • Pylons (web framework), an open source web application framework in Python
  • Pylons, devices used in the television series Land of the Lost
  • Pylon, an initiatory working group of the Temple of Set, based on a specific initiatory theme and/or centred on a geographical location
  • A famous scoreboard structure at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  • Pylon Peak, a mountain in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
  • Pylons, massive defense platforms used by the Necrons in Warhammer 40,000.
  • A pylon turn is a flight maneuver in which an aircraft banks into a circular turn around a fixed spot on the ground.

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