Poll

Poll, polled, or polling may refer to:

Figurative head counts

Poll, an election
- Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
- Election verification exit poll, survey take for election verification
- Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion
- Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions
- Polling places or the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections
- Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote

Agriculture

Poll (livestock), the top of an animal's head
Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species
Polling, livestock dehorning

Arts, entertainment, and media

Poll (band), a Greek pop group of the 1970s
Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries

Mathematics, science, and technology

poll (Unix), a Unix system call
POLL, DNA polymerase lambda
Polling (computer science), actively and synchronously sampling an external device's status
Polling system, a mathematical model where a single server visits a set of queues in some order

People

Given name or middle name

Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal
Poll Ashokanand (born 1940), Indian former cricketer
Poll Shyamsunder (1924–1988), Indian cricketer

Surname

Brian Poll (1941–1999), English cricketer
Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal
George St Poll (died 1550s), an English politician
Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee
Jana Franziska Poll (born 1988), German volleyball player
Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director
Martin Poll (1922–2012), American film and television producer
Max Poll (1908–1991), Belgian ichthyologist
Mihkel Poll (born 1986), Estonian pianist
Richard D. Poll (1918–1994), American historian, academic, author
Thomas St Poll (died 1582), member of Parliament
Kim Polling (born 1991), Dutch judoka

Places

Austria

Polling im Innkreis, a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria
Polling in Tirol, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol

Germany

Poll (Cologne), a quarter of Cologne, Germany
Polling, Mühldorf, a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria
Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria

Other uses

Deed poll, a legal document binding only to a single person or party
Poll tax (disambiguation), several related forms of taxation
Polling (usually spelled "poleing"), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking
Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
Push poll, an interactive marketing technique designed to appear as an opinion poll

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gollark: If you want efficient design it is more thinky.

gollark: It's not as if the HECf reactors run efficiently at all.

gollark: Oh nooooo, how horrible, people are designing high-heat reactors and using them on low-heat stuff...

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