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Poll, polled or polling may refer to:
Figurative head counts
- Polling, voting to make decisions or determine opinions
- Poll, an election
- Polling places or the polls, where voters cast their ballots in elections
- Opinion poll, a survey of public opinion
- Straw poll, an ad-hoc or unofficial vote
- Exit poll, a survey of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations
- Election verification exit poll, survey take for election verification
Mathematics, science, and technology
- Poll (Unix), a Unix command
- 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
Agriculture
- Poll (livestock), the top of an animal's head
- Polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally horned species
- Polling, livestock dehorning
People
- Claudia Poll (born 1972), Central American swimmer with Olympic gold medal
- Graham Poll (born 1963), British referee
- Jon Poll (born 1958), American film director
- Martin Poll (1922-2012), American film and television producer
- Max Poll (1908-1991), Belgian ichthyologist
- Silvia Poll Ahrens (born 1970), Central American swimmer with Olympic medal
Places
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
Austria
- Polling in Tirol, a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol
- Polling im Innkreis, a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria
Other
- Polling or pollarding, cutting the upper part of a tree and allowing it to regrow
- Polling (metallurgy), removing oxides when refining a metal
- Polling (usually spelled poleing), standing up with arms to the sides in unusual public spaces; a variant of planking
- Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries
- Poll tax, several related forms of taxation
- POLL, DNA polymerase lambda
- Deed poll, a legal document binding only to a single person or party
- Push poll, is an interactive marketing technique designed to appear as an opinion poll
See also
- Pohl (disambiguation)
- Pohle (disambiguation)
- Pole (disambiguation)
- Pollard (disambiguation)
- Polly (disambiguation)
- Paul (disambiguation)
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