A tower is a tall human-made structure.
Tower may also refer to:
Types of towers
- Air traffic control tower
- Bell tower
- Cell tower, a cellular telephone communications site
- Clock tower
- Computer tower
- Conning tower
- Cooling tower
- Drop tower, an amusement park ride
- Fire lookout tower
- Fortified tower
- Interlocking tower or control cabin, directs railroad traffic
- Lattice tower or truss tower
- Martello tower, a small defensive fort
- Office tower
- Peel tower, a small fortified keep or tower house
- Radio tower
- Siege tower or breaching tower
- Telecommunications tower (disambiguation)
- Television tower
- Tower houses in the Balkans, tower houses built in the Balkans
- Transmission tower, used for electric power transmission
- Watchtower, a type fortification used in many parts of the world
- Water tower
Places
Geography
- Tower (ward), ward of the City of London, England
- Tower, County Cork, Ireland
- Tower, Michigan, United States
- Tower, Minnesota, United States
- Tower Branch, a stream in Pennsylvania, United States
Buildings with the name
- Tower of London, also known as "The Tower"
- Towers (Boston University), a dormitory at Boston University
- Trump Tower, a mixed use commercial and residential building in New York City
People
- Tower (surname), also Towers (surname)
Arts, entertainment, media and sports
Fictional entities
- Tower (Code Lyoko), element of virtual world in animated TV series
- Tower (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Music
- Tower (album), an album by the Finnish rock band Circle featuring Verde
- Tower (band), a 1980s Dutch Symphonic Rock band
- "Towers", a song by Little Mix
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Tower (2012 Canadian film), directed by Kazik Radwanski
- Tower (2016 film), about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin
- "Towers", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
- The Tower (Tarot card)
Sports
- Hamburg Towers, German basketball team
- London Towers, former English basketball team
Brands and enterprises
- Alton Towers, a theme park and resort located in Staffordshire, England
- Tower Comics
- Tower International
- Tower Records (music retailer)
- Tower Records (record label)
- TOWER Software
- Towers Department Stores, Canada
- Tower Semiconductor, Israel
Mathematics
- Tower of fields, a sequence of field extensions
- Tower of objects, in category theory
- Tower of powers, nested exponentiation
Organizations
- Hamburg Towers, German basketball club
- Princeton Tower Club, an eating club at Princeton University
- Tower Transit, a bus operating company in London since 2013 owned by Transit Systems
- Tower Transit Singapore, a bus operating company in Singapore since June 2016 owned by Transit Systems
Other uses
See also
- List of leaning towers
- Tall buildings in London
- The Tower (disambiguation)
- The Towers (disambiguation)
- Tower blocks in Great Britain
- Tower City (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Tower
- All pages with titles containing Tower
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