Pylon (disambiguation)

Pylon (disambiguation)

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, also known as 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


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