Pool
Pool has several meanings:
- It is any of several games similar to billiards, distinguished by using a table that has one pocket at each corner and one in the middle of each of the two longer sides. See Eight ball, or the note about the UK version.
- In football: A football pool is much like a casino game in which the winner is determined by a wheel with numbered frets, each corresponding to a square in the payoff matrix.
- It is a small body of water, often man-made. See swimming pool.
- A form of gambling in which a group collectively bets on an outcome of a sports team or other happening.
- A pool is also a container for money to which many people contribute, and also a container for messages in an anonymous remailer.
- In computer science, a memory pool is an area of storage reserved to be allocated in a special, regular way.
- The total money wagered on a specific type of bet in a parimutuel wagering operation.
- The Pool region of the Republic of the Congo is currently the home of a low-level insurgency led by "Pasteur Ntumi."
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