The term pylon usually refers to a truncated pyramid or an object shaped like one. Specific objects include:

• An electricity pylon, part of an electric power transmission network (especially UK usage)
• A traffic cone (American usage)
• An orange marker designating one of four corners of an American football end zone
• Support structures for suspension bridges or highways (American usage)
• Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple
• Vertical structure used to mount stores externally on an aircraft, also known as a hardpoint

Other uses of the word Pylon:

• Pylon (band), a 1980s new-wave band from Athens, Georgia, USA
• Pylon (novel), a 1935 novel by William Faulkner
• Pylon (StarCraft), a Protoss structure in the StarCraft computer game series
• Pylons (web framework), an open source web application framework in Python
• Pylons, devices used in the television series Land of the Lost
• Pylon, an initiatory working group of the Temple of Set, based on a specific initiatory theme and/or centred on a geographical location
• A famous scoreboard structure at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• Pylon Peak, a mountain in southwestern British Columbia, Canada

See also

• Pylos

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