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Pylon
Pylon Py"lon, n.
1. A tower, commonly of steelwork, for supporting either end
of a wire, as for a telegraph line, over a long span.
2. (A["e]ronautics)
(a) Formerly, a starting derrick (the use of which is now
abandoned) for an a["e]roplane.
(b) A post, tower, or the like, as on an a["e]rodrome, or
flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed
course of flight.
Pylon
Pylon Py"lon, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a gateway.]
(a) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and
flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front. --J.
W. Draper.
(b) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without
flanking towers).
Meaning of Pylon from wikipedia
- Look up
Pylon or
pylon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Pylon may
refer to:
Pylon (architecture), the
gateway to the
inner part of an
Ancient Egyptian...
- A
transmission tower (also
electricity pylon,
hydro tower, or
pylon) is a tall structure,
usually a
lattice tower made of
steel that is used to support...
- A
pylon is a
monumental gate of an
Egyptian temple (Egyptian: bxn.t in the
Manuel de
Codage transliteration). The word
comes from the Gr**** term πυλών...
- The
Pylons of
Messina are two free-standing
steel towers, the
Sicilian one in
Torre Faro and the
Calabrian one in
Villa San Giovanni. They were used from...
- A
pylon turn is a
flight maneuver in
which an
aircraft banks into a
circular turn, in such a way that an
imaginary line
projecting straight out the side...
-
Eights on
pylons or
pylon eights is a
ground reference maneuver where an
aircraft is
flown in a
figure eight pattern around two
selected points on the...
-
Pylones is a
French gift shop chain.
Pylones was
founded in
Paris in 1985, by
Jacques Guillemet and Lena Guillemet. They have 110
shops in 20 countries...
- The
Mickey pylon (also
known as the
Mickey Mouse pylon) is a 105-foot-tall (32 m) double-deadend pole-type 230-kV
power line
pylon in
front of Osceola...
- A dead-end
tower (also
anchor tower,
anchor pylon) is a
fully self-supporting
structure used in
construction of
overhead power lines. A dead-end transmission...
- the arch
stands a pair of 89-metre-high (292 ft)
concrete pylons,
faced with granite. The
pylons were
designed by the
Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait,...
