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 (Don't Look Down)" a song by Skylar Grey from Don't Look Down
  • "Towers", a song by Little Mix
  • Towers..., 1998 EP by Burning Witch

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

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
  • Tower Theatre (disambiguation)

Other uses

  • Tower (typeface)
  • Rook (chess), sometimes called a "tower"

See also

  • List of leaning towers
  • Tall buildings in London
  • The Tower (disambiguation)
  • The Towers (disambiguation)
  • Tower blocks in Great Britain
  • Tower City (disambiguation)