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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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