Pylon (disambiguation)
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The term pylon usually refers to a truncated pyramid or an object shaped like one. 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.
- Vertical structure used to mount stores externally on an aircraft.
Other uses of the word Pylon:
- Pylon (band) is a 1980s new-wave band from Athens, Georgia, USA.
- Pylon (novel) is a 1935 novel by William Faulkner.
- Pylon (StarCraft) is a Protoss structure in the StarCraft computer game series.
- Pylons (web framework) is an open source web application framework in Python
- Pylons are devices used in the television series Land of the Lost.
- A Pylon is an initiatory working group of the Temple Of Set, based on a specific initiatory theme and/or centred on a geographical location
