Bank

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A bank is a financial institution and may be part of a bank holding company.

Bank or The Bank or Banking may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

• Blood bank
• Gene bank
• Seedbank

Film and television

• The Bank (1915 film), starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Bank (2001 film), starring David Wenham

Natural geography

• Bank (geography), a raised portion of seabed or sloping ground along the edge of a stream, river, or lake
• Ocean bank (topography), a shallow area in a body of water

Organizations and brands

• BANK (art collective), a 1990s London art collective
• Bank (tobacco), a brand of rolling tobacco
• Bank Street College of Education, a private graduate school for Early Childhood Education, in New York, NY, U.S.
• Bank (diaper bank), organizations created for the purpose of distributing free diapers to parents and caregivers unable to afford diapers.

Physical location

• Bank Station (OC Transpo), a bus stop in Ottawa
• Bank Street (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada
• Bank-Monument station, a tube station in London
• Bankə, Azerbaijan
• Promysel Narimanova or Bank, Azerbaijan
• Bank, Iran, city in Bushehr Province, Iran

Physical surface

• See below Transportation engineering and aviation's banked turn
• See disambiguation Embankment (disambiguation)
• Shore

Sports

• Bank shot, a type of shot in basketball
• Bank shot, a type of shot in cue sports
• Citizens Bank Park or The Bank, a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Transportation engineering, and aviation

• Bank engine, a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train, usually to add haulage power over a short distance
• Bank or roll, in aircraft flight dynamics, a rotation of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis
  • Banked turn, a change of direction in which a vehicle inclines

Other uses

• Bank paper, thin paper
• Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine
• Data bank, a storage area for information in telecommunications
• Environmental mitigation or mitigation banking, government-regulated environmental offset projects
• Memory bank, a logical unit of storage
• Piggy bank, a device for money saving

See also

• Banker (disambiguation)
• Banks (disambiguation)
• Cache (disambiguation)
• Embankment (disambiguation)
• Phone bank (disambiguation)
• Shore
• Storage (disambiguation)
• Vəng (disambiguation), several places in Azerbaijan

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