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Pool
Pool: a deep, slow-water topographic low in a riverbed alternating with riffles every 3–5 channel widths; formed by flow obstructions or free-formed scour; also oil-and-gas reservoirs and marsh pools.
Pool (cue sports)
Pool (cue sports), also called pocket billiards: games on a pocketed table with cue ball and numbered balls. Eight-ball uses 15 balls and assigned groups; nine-ball uses 9 balls in ascending order; WPA rules govern.
Pool of Bethesda
Pool of Bethesda (Beth-Zatha), ancient double-basin pool in Jerusalem's Bezetha quarter near St Anne's Church, described in John 5:2 with five porticoes; excavated as a Herodian miqveh with a later Serapis-Asklepios cult and Byzantine-Crusader churches.
Pool of Gibeon
The Pool of Gibeon is a monumental rock-cut water system in the Iron Age town of Gibeon, identified with el-Jib, excavated by James Bennet Pritchard from 1956 to 1962.
Pool of Siloam (בריכת השילוח)
The Pool of Siloam (בריכת השילוח), also called Siloam Pool, is an ancient water reservoir at the southern end of the City of David in Jerusalem.
Poole
Poole is a coastal town in Dorset, England, on Poole Harbour, one of Europe's largest natural harbours. Formerly the Borough of Poole, since 2019 it sits within BCP Council; a new Poole Town Council is being created.
Pooled analysis
Pooled analysis combines the individual participant data of multiple studies into a single dataset, estimating an effect with greater precision; the two-stage approach, which preserves study membership, is the most common method.
Pooled testing
Pooled testing combines specimens from several people into one diagnostic test, clearing many with a single negative result and saving tests when infection is rare.
Pooled variance
Pooled variance, also called combined variance, is a single estimate of a common population variance that weights group sample variances by degrees of freedom, used in the equal-variance two-sample t-test and analysis of variance.
Pooling layer
A pooling layer is a component of a convolutional neural network that downsamples feature maps by summarizing small local regions, most often with max or average pooling, reducing computation.
Pooling of interests
Pooling of interests was a US accounting method for stock-for-stock mergers that combined book values with no goodwill, required by APB Opinion 16 and abolished in 2001.
Pools (film)
Pools is a 2025 American comedy-drama, Sam Hayes's feature debut, starring Odessa A'zion as Kennedy, a grieving college student on a midnight pool-hopping night in Lake Forest; 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, SXSW Sydney Audience Award winner.
Pools (video game)
POOLS is a 2024 Finnish first-person walking simulator by Tensori, also called Poolrooms-style liminal horror. Six wordless chapters, no monsters or music; Metascore 77, Steam 95% positive, Finnish Game Award winner.
Poolside (group)
Poolside is an electronic music act from Los Angeles, started in 2011 by Jeffrey Paradise and Filip Nikolic, known for its relaxed, sunny style of dance music called daytime disco.
Poolside (model family)
Poolside is a family of open-weight code foundation models from the company Poolside, founded in 2023, whose Laguna models are trained with reinforcement learning that rewards code that actually executes.
Poompuhar (பூம்புகார்)
Poompuhar (பூம்புகார்), also Puhar or Kaveripoompattinam, was the early Chola port capital at the Kaveri mouth and the setting of Silappathikaram; the name also denotes the 1964 Tamil film by Karunanidhi and P. Neelakantan starring S. S. Rajendran and C. R. Vijayakumari.
Poomsuwan Suwansatit (ภูมิสุวรรณ สุวรรณสถิตย์)
Poomsuwan Suwansatit (ภูมิสุวรรณ สุวรรณสถิตย์), known as Almond, is a Thai actor, singer, and model born in 2007 who broke out starring in Love Sick 2024.
Poon Lim (潘濂)
Poon Lim (潘濂) was a Chinese merchant seaman who survived 133 days alone on a raft in the South Atlantic in 1942 and 1943, the longest recorded survival adrift at sea.
Poon Mitpakdee (ปูน มิตรภักดี)
Poon Mitpakdee (ปูน มิตรภักดี, born 1999) is a Thai actor under GMMTV. Breakout as Pun in We Are (2024); leads as North in My Romance Scammer (2026); films The Medium and Happy Monday(s).
Poona Dakshina
Poona Dakshina (दक्षिणा) was an annual cash allowance the Peshwa government of Poona distributed to learned Brahmans each Shravan, begun by Khanderao Dabhade and continued by Bajirao I after 1731.
Poona Pact
The Poona Pact, signed in 1932 by B.R. Ambedkar and Devdas Gandhi on behalf of M.K. Gandhi, gave Dalits reserved seats in joint electorates instead of separate ones.
Poona plague
The Poona plague (पुणे प्लेग) was a bubonic plague outbreak in Poona, India, from late 1896, part of the third plague pandemic in British India.
Poona Plates of Prabhavatigupta
The Poona Plates of Prabhavatigupta (प्रभावतीगुप्ता पुणे ताम्रपत्र) are a Sanskrit copper-plate charter recording a land grant by the Vakataka regent queen, dated around 415 to 420 CE.
Poonam Dhillon (पूनम ढिल्लों)
Poonam Dhillon (पूनम ढिल्लों), born 1962, is an Indian actress launched by Yash Chopra in Trishul (1978) and known for Noorie (1979, Filmfare nomination). She joined the BJP in 2004, finished second runner-up on Bigg Boss 3, and has been CINTAA president since May 2024.
Poonam Gupta (businesswoman)
Poonam Gupta OBE is a Scottish businesswoman from Delhi who co-founded the paper trader PG Paper Company in 2003, serving as joint chief executive and receiving an OBE in 2016.
Poonam Gupta (economist)
Poonam Gupta is an Indian economist who became Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in May 2025, after careers at the IMF and World Bank.
Poonam Mahajan (पूनम महाजन)
Poonam Mahajan (पूनम महाजन), also Poonam Vajendla Rao, BJP politician, two-term Lok Sabha MP for Mumbai North Central (2014–2024) and BJYM national president from 2016; daughter of Pramod Mahajan.
Poonam Pandey (पूनम पांडे)
Poonam Pandey (पूनम पांडे), born 1991, Indian model and actor famous for her 2011 Cricket World Cup strip pledge, films Nasha and Malini & Co., and the February 2024 faked cervical-cancer death stunt.
Poonam Sinha
Poonam Sinha (पूनम सिन्हा), née Poonam Chandiramani, screen name Komal, is a Hindi film actress and producer (Jigri Dost, Jodhaa Akbar), wife of Shatrughan Sinha, mother of Luv, Kush, and Sonakshi Sinha, and 2019 Samajwadi Party Lucknow candidate.
Poonamben Maadam
Poonamben Maadam, born 1974 in Jamnagar, Gujarat, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Jamnagar constituency in the Lok Sabha since 2014.