Pollard
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Pollard may refer to:
- Pollard (surname)Pollard (surname)Pollard is a family name that may refer to:* Albert Pollard, British historian* Alfred W. Pollard, , English bibliographer* Bernard Pollard, an NFL safety for the Houston Texans* Carl Pollard, American linguist...
, a list of people named "Pollard" - Pollard, AlabamaPollard, AlabamaPollard is a town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 120.-Geography:Pollard is located at .According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
, a town in the United States - PollardPollard (novel)Pollard is a novel written by Laura Beatty published in 2008 by Chatto & Windus in hardback and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books...
, a novel by Laura Beatty - Pollard, a tree or animal which has been polled (had its branches, horns or antlers removed):
- Pollard, a tree affected by pollardingPollardingPollarding is a pruning system in which the upper branches of a tree are removed, promoting a dense head of foliage and branches. It has been common in Great Britain and Europe since medieval times and is practiced today in urban areas worldwide, primarily to maintain trees at a predetermined...
, a method for shaping trees, cropping the branches above head-height - Pollard or polled livestockPolled livestockPolled livestock are livestock without horns, of species that normally have them. The term refers both to breeds or strains which are naturally polled through selective breeding and also to naturally horned animals which have been dehorned...
, hornless livestock of normally-horned species - Pollard, a deer which has cast its antlerAntlerAntlers are the usually large, branching bony appendages on the heads of most deer species.-Etymology:Antler originally meant the lowest tine, the "brow tine"...
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- Pollard, a tree affected by pollarding
- Pollard, the European chubEuropean chubThe European chub , sometimes called the round chub, fat chub, chevin, pollard or simply "the" chub, is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae...
(Squalius cephalus), a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae - Pollard, a mixture of fine branBranBran is the hard outer layer of grain and consists of combined aleurone and pericarp. Along with germ, it is an integral part of whole grains, and is often produced as a by-product of milling in the production of refined grains. When bran is removed from grains, the grains lose a portion of their...
and a small amount of flour - Pollard scriptPollard scriptThe Pollard script, also known as Pollard Miao, is an abugida loosely based on the Latin alphabet and invented by Methodist missionary Sam Pollard. Pollard invented the script for use with A-Hmao, one of several dialects of the Hmong language. The script underwent a series of revisions until 1936,...
, a writing system devised in 1905 for the A-Hmao language - Several algorithms created by British mathematician John PollardJohn Pollard (mathematician)John M. Pollard is a British mathematician who has invented algorithms for the factorization of large numbers and for the calculation of discrete logarithms....
:- Pollard's p − 1 algorithm
- Pollard's kangaroo algorithm
- Pollard's rho algorithmPollard's rho algorithmPollard's rho algorithm is a special-purpose integer factorization algorithm. It was invented by John Pollard in 1975. It is particularly effective at splitting composite numbers with small factors.-Core ideas:...