Bank (disambiguation)
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A bank
is a financial institution and may be part of a bank holding company.
Bank or The Bank or Banking may also refer to:
Bank
A bank is a financial institution that serves as a financial intermediary. The term "bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities:...
is a financial institution and may be part of a bank holding company.
Bank or The Bank or Banking may also refer to:
Film and television
- The Bank (1915 film), starring Charlie Chaplin
- The Bank (2001 film)The Bank (2001 film)The Bank is an 2001 Australian thriller/drama film starring David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia.-Plot:Jim Doyle is a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market...
, starring David Wenham
Natural geography
- Bank (geography)Bank (geography)A geographic bank has four definitions and applications:# Limnology: The shoreline of a pond, swamp, estuary, reservoir, or lake. The grade can vary from vertical to a shallow slope....
, a raised portion of seabed or sloping ground along the edge of a stream, river, or lake - Ocean bank (topography), a shallow area in a body of water
Organizations and brands
- BANK (art collective)BANK (art collective)BANK was an artists’ group active in London during the 1990s.-History and project:John Russell, Dino Demosthenous and Simon Bedwell founded the group in 1991. Dino Demosthenous left in 1992. In 1993, Russell and Bedwell were joined by Milly Thompson, David Burrows and Andrew Williamson. Burrows...
, a 1990s London art collective - Bank (tobacco)Bank (tobacco)Bank is a brand of tobacco.It is made up of a blend of Virginia and Burley tobaccos.It is usually sold only in pouches.Bank is a product of Imperial Tobacco Netherlands....
, a brand of rolling tobacco - Bank Street College of EducationBank Street College of EducationBank Street College of Education is located in Manhattan, New York City.-History:Bank Street was founded in 1916 by Lucy Sprague Mitchell as the "Bureau of Educational Experiments"....
, a private graduate school for Early Childhood Education, in New York, NY, U.S.
Physical location
- Bank Station (OC Transpo)Bank Station (OC Transpo)Bank Transitway Station or Bank Street Station is a bus-stop on Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's transitway served by OC Transpo buses. It is located on the central transitway, which is part of the 95 line, 96 line and 97 line. Bank is named for Bank Street which is located perpendicular to the...
, a bus stop in Ottawa - Bank Street (Ottawa)Bank Street (Ottawa)Bank Street is the major north-south road in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs south from Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa, south through the neighbourhoods of Centretown, The Glebe, Old Ottawa South, Alta Vista, Hunt Club, and then through the villages of Blossom Park, Leitrim, South...
, Ontario, Canada - Bank-Monument station, a tube station in London
- Bankə, Azerbaijan
- Promysel NarimanovaPromysel NarimanovaPromysel Narimanova is a village in the Neftchala Rayon of Azerbaijan....
or Bank, Azerbaijan - Bank, IranBank, IranBank is a city in the Central District of Kangan County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 8,753, in 1,751 families....
, city in Bushehr Province, Iran
Sports
- Bank shot, a type of shot in basketball
- Bank shot, a type of shot in cue sports
- Citizens Bank ParkCitizens Bank ParkCitizens Bank Park is a 43,647-seat baseball park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex, and home of the Philadelphia Phillies. Citizens Bank Park opened on April 3, 2004, and hosted its first regular season baseball game on April 12 of the same year, with the...
or The Bank, a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Transportation engineering, and aviation
- Bank engineBank engineA bank engine or helper engine or pusher engine is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train that requires additional power or traction to climb a grade...
, a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train, usually to add haulage power over a short distance - Bank or roll, in aircraft flight dynamics, a rotation of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis
- Banked turnBanked turnA banked turn is a turn or change of direction in which the vehicle banks or inclines, usually towards the inside of the turn. The bank angle is the angle at which the vehicle is inclined about its longitudinal axis with respect to its path....
, a change of direction in which a vehicle inclines
- Banked turn
Other uses
- Bank paperBank paperBank paper is a thin strong writing paper of less than 50g/m2 commonly used for typewriting and correspondence.Bank paper are also securities which banks instead of governments issue. See also Commercial paper, securities issued by corporations....
, thin paper - Cylinder bankCylinder bankInternal combustion piston engines are usually arranged so that the cylinders are in lines parallel to the crankshaft. Where they are in a single line, this is referred to as an inline or straight engine....
, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine - Data bankData bankIn telecommunications, a data bank is a repository of information on one or more subjects that is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval. A data bank may be either centralized or decentralized...
, a storage area for information in telecommunications - Environmental mitigationEnvironmental mitigationEnvironmental mitigation, compensatory mitigation, or mitigation banking, are terms used primarily by the United States government and the related environmental industry to describe projects or programs intended to offset known impacts to an existing historic or natural resource such as a stream,...
or mitigation bankingMitigation bankingMitigation banking is the restoration, creation, enhancement, or preservation of a wetland, stream, or habitat conservation area which offsets expected adverse impacts to similar nearby ecosystems...
, government-regulated environmental offset projects - Memory bankMemory BankA memory bank is a logical unit of storage in electronics, which is hardware dependent. In computer the memory bank may be determined by the memory access controller and the CPU along with physical organization of the hardware memory slots....
, a logical unit of storage
See also
- Banker (disambiguation)Banker (disambiguation)-Other:* Bank engine or helper engine, a locomotive that helps other engines up steep hills.* The Banker , an industry publication* The Banker , the antagonist on the game show Deal or No Deal...
- Banks (disambiguation)
- CacheCacheIn computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere...
- Embankment (disambiguation)
- Phone bank (disambiguation)
- ShoreShoreA shore or shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake. In Physical Oceanography a shore is the wider fringe that is geologically modified by the action of the body of water past and present, while the beach is at the edge of the shore,...
- Storage (disambiguation)
- Vəng (disambiguation), several places in Azerbaijan