A group of news organizations pooling their resources in the collection of news. A video pool or pool feed is then distributed to members of the pool, who are free to edit it or use it as they see fit.

(genetics) The complete set of unique alleles that would be found by inspecting the genetic material of every living member of a species or population.

A pocket billiards game using numbered markers, called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls. Players draw peas at random from a shake bottle, which assigns to them the correspondingly numbered pool ball, kept secret from their opponents, but which they must pocket in order to win the game.

A swimming pool that produces a visual effect of water extending to the horizon or vanishing into a lake, bay, etc.

plural of thread pool pattern

(computing) A concurrency design pattern, where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks that are usually organized in a queue.

plural of object pool pattern

(programming) A creational design pattern that uses a set of initialised objects kept ready to use, rather than allocating and destroying them on demand.

A unitary authority in Dorset, England, formed on 1 April 2019, which replaced and merged the boroughs in these three towns

hydrochloric acid