Bank (disambiguation)

A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities.

Bank or banking may also refer to:

Finance

Science

Natural geography

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

Biology and healthcare

Geography

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Memory Banks (comic strip), a British comic strip
  • Memory Bank (UK game show), a daytime game show which was shown on Five in the UK

Computing and technology

  • Data bank, a storage area for information in telecommunications
  • Memory bank, a logical unit of storage

Organizations

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

Sports

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
  • Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine

Other uses

  • Bank (surname), a surname
  • Bank (fortification), a type of earthwork used in field defenses or around early hillforts
  • Bank paper, thin paper
  • Elevator bank, a group of elevators in a building
  • Mitigation banking, or environmental mitigation, government-regulated environmental offset projects

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with bank
  • All pages with titles containing bank
  • Banker (disambiguation)
  • Banks (disambiguation)
  • Cache (disambiguation)
  • Embankment (disambiguation)
  • Phone bank (disambiguation)
  • Shore
  • Storage (disambiguation)
  • Vəng (disambiguation), several places in Azerbaijan
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