Science and Technology
- One "half" of a dipole
- Pole, term used in electrical circuits used to describe switch contact variations
- Pole (unit of length), a unit of length equal to 5½ yards, or 16½ feet (5.0292 metres): also known as a rod, or a perch
- Landau pole, the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite
- Magnetic pole, one of the two ends of a magnet
- Monopole (disambiguation)
- Magnetic monopole, a hypothetical particle that may be loosely described as a magnet with only one pole
- Monopole (mathematics), a connection over a principal bundle G with a section (the Higgs field) of the associated adjoint bundle
- Monopole (wine), an appellation controlled by a single winery
- Monopole antenna, a radio antenna that replaces half of a dipole antenna with a ground plane at right-angles to the remaining half
- Mathematics
- Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
- An element of the configuration of perspective triangles
- Pole and polar, a point that describes the position and orientation of a line with respect to a given circle
- Pole and polar line, a duality with respect to conics in projective geometry
- Meteorology
- Polar climate, the climate of the polar regions, characterized by a lack of warm summers
- Polar front, the boundary region between the polar cell and the Ferrel cell in each hemisphere
- Pole figure, a method for representing crystal symmetry
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