Glossary

The term bank may refer to the following:

• a financial institution and intermediary that accepts deposits and channels them into lending activities
• Blood bank, a Repository for blood or blood components stored and preserved for use in blood transfusions
• Gene bank, a repository for biological material, specifically genetic material
• Seed bank, a type of gene bank that stores seeds of food crops for later planting, or rare species of plants as a means of ensuring biodiversity
• a geographical term referring to the terrain alongside a body of water
• Diaper bank, a type of charitable organization that provides diapers for people who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to them, via donations in cash or in kind
• Ocean bank (or fishing bank), a relatively shallow area in a body of water, such as the sea, that may be a rich fishing ground
• Bank engine (also helper engine, pusher engine), a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train for additional power and traction, usually for climbing sloped areas
• Bank (or roll), a rotation of a fixed-wing aircraft about its longtitudinal axis
• Banked turn, a turn or change of direction in which a vehicle banks or inclines, usually towards the inside of the turn
• a type of shot in basketball wherein the ball is bounced off of the backboard and into the basket
• a type of shot in cue sports wherein the object ball is driven to one or more rails before reaching its intended target
• Bánk, a village and municipality in the county of Nógrád in Hungary
• Bank (or Banak), a city in the province of Bushehr in Iran
• Citizens Bank Park (also CBP, The Bank), a baseball park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US
• Bank Street College of Education, a private graduate school in New York City, New York in the US
• BANK, a group of artists who were active in London during the 1990s
• The Bank, a 1915 silent comedy film starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Bank, a 2001 Australian film starring David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a 1983 science fiction TV movie starring Raúl Juliá
• Memory Bank, a short-lived daytime game show in the UK
• Mitigation banking (also environmental mitigation, compensatory mitigation), a type of project or program intended to offset known impacts to a historic or natural resource
• Bank paper, a type of thing but strong writing paper or a type of security issued by a bank
• Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine
• Data bank, a centralized or decentralized repository of information on one or more subjects that is organized in a way that facilitates the retrieval of the information contained within
• Memory bank, a hardware-dependent logical unit of storage in electronics
• Piggy bank (also penny bank, money box), a ceramic or porcelain container for coins mostly used by children